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Events on Monday 26 August 1850 1
1773 – 1850Louis Philippe I (1773-1850)Died 26 August 1850, aged 76Louis Philippe ruled as King of the French from 1830 until he was overthrown in the Revolution of 1848. He fled to England under a false identity and spent his final years in exile at Claremont House in Surrey. His fall ended constitutional monarchy in France and opened the way for the Second Republic.