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Orleans (LOUIS PHILIPPE JOS- EPH DUKE)

LOUIS PHILIPPE JOS- EPH, DUKE OF (Egalité), a greatgrandson of the regent Philippe, Duke of Orleans; born in St. Cloud, France, April 13, 1747; married in 1769 the daughter of the Duke of Penthièvre.

He was notorious for his dissoluteness of manners. His opposition to the court began in 1771, and he became the rallying point of its enemies. In 1787 he was exiled for the part he took in the Assembly of Notables; in 1789 he was one of the nobles who joined the Tiers Etat (Third Estate); in 1792 he went over Louis XIII. and younger brother of to the revolutionary party without re- Louis XIV. His son Philip, Duke of serve, took the name of Philippe Egalité ORLEANS ("Philip Equality"), and voted for the death of Louis XVI. It did not save him from being arrested as a Bourbon, condemned and beheaded, in Paris, Nov. 6, 1793.