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 | | From his birth until 1785 Louis Philippe was known as the duc de Valois and subsequently as the duc de Chartes until 1793, when his father was guillotined, and he succeeded him as duc d'Orleans. |
 | | Like his father he was in sympathy with the French Revolution, the upheaval in France that resulted in the establishment of the First Republic, and in 1790 he joined the Jacobins, members of a French radical political club. |
 | | After the defeat of the French army by the Austrians at the Battle of Neerwinden, Holland, in 1793, Louis Philippe was implicated with his superior officer, in a plot against the republic, and he fled to Switzerland. |
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