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Louis Philippe of France. So called because he was elected king by the citizens of Paris. (Born 1773, reigned 1830–1848, died 1850.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.