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Louis Philipe II, Father of Louis Philippe I; The
Last King of France
Supported Rousseau's
ideas!!
As he grew more and more interested in Rousseau's
ideas, he began to promote Enlightenment
ideology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Philippe_II,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans
The dissonance between his positive early reputation and his late unpopularity was epitomized by Victor Hugo in Les Misérables as an oxymoron describing his reign as "Prince Equality"
Liberal
Ideology
Philippe, like most Jacobins during the French Revolution, strongly adhered to the principles of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and was interested in creating a more moral and democratic form of government in France
Liberal Ideology
He often visited Great Britain, and became an intimate of the Prince of Wales.
In France, he made anglomanie fashionable, with an admiration for anything British, from liberalism to jockeys.
He was also the Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Orient de France from 1771–93, though he did not attend a meeting of the Grand Orient until 1777.
He later distanced himself from Freemasonry in a letter dated January 1793, and the Grand Orient vacated his position on 13 December 1793.[8]
He also made himself very popular in Paris by his large gifts to the poor during times of famine.
To appear egalitarian, he opened up the gardens of the Palais Royal to the public and allowed shops in the palace's
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