Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French Revolution.
Portrait by Antoine-François Callet
Portrait of a young Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, by Louis Tocqué.
Louise Marie Adélaïde as the Duchess of Chartres
Louis Philippe d'Orléans, as Duke of Chartres, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1779, Château de Chantilly
Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, known as le Gros, was a French royal of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon. The First Prince of the Blood after 1752, he was the most senior male at the French c
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
…6 November 1793), was a French Prince of the Blood who supported the French Revolution. Louis Philippe II was born at the Château de Saint-Cloud to Louis Philippe I, Duke of Chartres, and his wife, Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti. He was titled Duke of Montpensier at birth. When his grandfather Louis, Duke of Orléans, died in 1752…
Louis Philippe aged 12 (portrait by Nicolas Delobel, 1737)
Louise Henriette as the Duchess of Chartres, Jean-Marc Nattier.
Children of the Duke of Orléans (c.1755); Bathilde holds an angel with her brother, the Duke of Chartres, is on the far right, François-Hubert Drouais.
The Château de Sainte-Assise