Orleanist definition

ôrlē-ə-nĭst
A supporter of the Orléans branch of the French royal family, descended from a younger brother of Louis XIV.
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A supporter of the house of Orléans' claim to the French throne through the Duke of Orléans, a younger brother of Louis XIV.
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Orleanist Sentence Examples

  • Freycinet's cabinet, he erased the name of the duc d'Aumale from the army list, as part of the republican campaign against the Orleanist and Bonapartist princes.

  • The execution of his father in November 1793 had made him duke of Orleans, and he now became the centre of the intrigues of the Orleanist party.

  • In 1866 he was employed at the ministry of war in the preparation of army reorganization schemes, and he published anonymously in the following year L'Armee francaise en 1867, a work inspired with Orleanist sentiment, which ran through ten editions in a few months and reached a twentieth in 1870.

  • Elected a member of the National Assembly in 1871, he zealously supported the Orleanist party.

  • His Orleanist tendencies and his objections to the republic were strong, and though he at first supported Tillers, he afterwards became a leader of the opposition to the president.

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