Editing Louis Philippe I (section)

==Abdication and death (1848–1850)==
[[File:Les Poires cropped.jpg|thumb|1834 caricature of Louis Philippe turning into a pear mirrored the deterioration of his popularity ([[Honoré Daumier]], after [[Charles Philipon]], who was imprisoned for the original)]]
[[File:Lar9 philippo 001z.jpg|thumb|[[Alphonse de Lamartine]] in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848, during the [[February 1848 Revolution]]]]

On 24 February 1848, during the [[February 1848 Revolution]], King Louis Philippe abdicated in favour of his nine-year-old grandson, [[Philippe, comte de Paris]]. Fearful of what had happened to the deposed Louis XVI, Louis Philippe quickly left Paris under disguise. He rode in an ordinary cab under the name of "Mr. Smith". He fled to England with his wife on board a [[packet boat]] offered to him by the British consul at [[Le Havre]].<ref>de Flers, 1891; 162–166</ref>

The [[National Assembly of France]] initially planned to accept young Philippe as king, but the strong current of public opinion rejected that. On 26 February, the [[French Second Republic|Second Republic]] was proclaimed. Louis Napoléon Bonaparte was elected president on 10 December 1848; on 2 December 1851, he declared himself [[president for life]] and then Emperor [[Napoleon III]] in 1852.

Louis Philippe and his family remained in exile in Great Britain in [[Claremont (country house)|Claremont]], Surrey, though a plaque on Angel Hill, [[Bury St Edmunds]], claims that he spent some time there, possibly due to a friendship with the [[Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol|Marquess of Bristol]], who lived nearby at [[Ickworth House]]. The royal couple spent some time by the sea at [[St Leonards-on-Sea|St. Leonards]]<ref name="historymap.info-">[http://wiki.historymap.info/Royal_Victoria_Hotel#Notable_Visitors Royal Victoria Hotel – Historical Hastings Wiki], accessdate: 22 May 2020</ref> and later at the Marquess's home in [[Brighton]]. Louis Philippe died at Claremont on 26 August 1850. He was first buried at St. Charles Borromeo Chapel in [[Weybridge]], Surrey. In 1876, his remains and those of his wife were taken to France and buried at the ''[[Chapelle royale de Dreux]]'', the Orléans family [[necropolis]] his mother had built in 1816, and which he had enlarged and embellished after her death.