Editing Louis Philippe I (section)

==Before the Revolution (1773–1789)==
===Early life===
[[File:Louis-Philippe d’Orléans 1787.jpg|thumb|left|Profile of the 13-year-old Louis Philippe d'Orléans, drawn by [[Carle Vernet]] (27 August 1787)]]

Louis Philippe was born in the [[Palais-Royal]], the residence of the [[House of Orléans|Orléans family]] in Paris, to [[Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans|Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres]] ([[Duke of Orléans]], upon the death of his father [[Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orleans|Louis Philippe I]]), and [[Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon]]. As a member of the reigning [[House of Bourbon]], he was a [[Prince of the Blood]], which entitled him the use of the style "[[Serene Highness]]". His mother was an extremely wealthy heiress who was descended from [[Louis XIV]] through a legitimized line.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Louis Philippe was the eldest of three sons and a daughter, a family that was to have erratic fortunes from the beginning of the [[French Revolution]] to the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} The elder branch of the House of Bourbon, to which the kings of France belonged, deeply distrusted the intentions of the cadet branch, which would succeed to the throne of France should the senior branch die out. Louis Philippe's father was exiled from the royal court, and the Orléans confined themselves to studies of the literature and sciences emerging from the [[French Enlightenment|Enlightenment]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

===Education===
Louis Philippe was tutored by the [[Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis|Countess of Genlis]], beginning in 1782. She instilled in him a fondness for [[Liberalism|liberal]] thought; it is probably during this period that Louis Philippe picked up his slightly [[Voltaire]]an{{Clarify|date=February 2009}} brand of Catholicism. When Louis Philippe's grandfather died in 1785, his father succeeded him as Duke of Orléans and Louis Philippe succeeded his father as Duke of Chartres.

In 1788, with the [[French Revolution]] looming, the young Louis Philippe showed his liberal sympathies when he helped break down the door of a prison cell in [[Mont Saint-Michel]], during a visit there with the Countess of Genlis. From October 1788 to October 1789, the ''Palais Royal'' was a meeting-place for the revolutionaries.