Godfather of the Revolution: The Life of Philippe Égalité, Duc D’Orléans
by Tom Ambrose
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While there are a great many books on Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the rest of the French Royal Family, the crucial role of the Duc d'Orleans--the man who bankrolled the French Revolution--has been inexplicably overlooked, and this is the first biography to appear in English for many years. This is despite the fact that he was the only member of a royal house ever to join a revolution against its monarchy and to vote for the judicial murder of the king. As well as bringing vividly to life show more the famous heroes and villains of the French Revolution, Tom Ambrose introduces the reader to a host of colorful and truly unforgettable characters, including Philippe's friend the Chevalier de Saint-George ("the Black Mozart") with whom he cofounded the first French anti-slavery society, the Duc's mistress Madame de Genlis, femme fatale and leading intellectual of the age, and--most significantly--Philippe himself, a towering figure in one of the most significant periods of European history. show lessTags
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- People/Characters
- Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, "Philippe Égalité"; Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France; Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans; Louis, Duke of Orléans; Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti; Stéphanie Félicité du Crest de Saint-Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis (show all 53); Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou, Madame de Montesson; Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Duchess of Orléans; Bathilde d'Orléans; Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos; Louis XVI, King of France; Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre; Jean Sylvain Bailly; Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duc de Lauzun (later duc de Biron); Louis Charles Auguste le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil; Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne; Jacques Pierre Brissot; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Marguerite Françoise Bouvier de la Mothe de Cepoy, comtesse de Buffon; Grace Dalrymple Elliott; Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé; Georges Jacques Danton; Camille Desmoulins; Jacques Necker; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau; Charles Alexandre de Calonne; Charles-Louis, Marquis Du Crest; Charles François Dumouriez; Jacques Charles de Fitz-James, 5th Duke of Fitz-James; Nathaniel Parker-Forth; Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Fréteau de Saint-Just; Charles-Alexis Brûlart, marquis de Sillery, comte de Genlis; George IV, King of the United Kingdom (as Prince of Wales); Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette; Marie Therese de Savoie, princesse de Lamballe; Louis XV, King of France; Jean Paul Marat; Marie Antoinette, Queen of France; René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou; Christophe Félix Louis Ventre de La Touloubre de Montjoie; Armand Marc, Count of Montmorin de Saint Herem; Louis Antoine Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Montpensier; Louis Charles Alphonse Léodgard d'Orléans, Count of Beaujolais; Louis Philippe I, King of France (as Louis Philippe III, Duc d'Orléans); Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve; Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier; Louis XVIII, King of France (as Louis Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence); Charles X, King of France (as Charles-Philippe de Bourbon, Count of Artois); Jean-Baptiste Réveillon; Maximilien de Robespierre; Louis Antoine de Saint-Just; Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès; Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, prince de Talleyrand
- Important places
- Paris, Île-de-France, France; Versailles, Île-de-France, France; Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France, France; London, England, UK
- Important events
- Réveillon Riots; Tennis Court Oath; Convention of the Estates-General of 1789; Diamond Necklace Affair; Storming of the Bastille; First Manned Balloon Flight (show all 11); Women's March on Versailles; Execution of King Louis XVI of France; Royal Flight to Varennes; First Battle of Ushant (1778); Great Fear
- Dedication
- For Gabriel, born on 14 July
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 944.04092 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco France Revolution 1789-1804
- LCC
- DC146 .O7 .A63 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Modern, 1515- Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815
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- English
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