Van wie was Lodewijk Filips II van Orléans?

Lodewijk Filips II Jozef van Orléans, Frans: Louis-Philippe Joseph d'Orléans (Saint-Cloud, 13 april 1747 – Parijs, 6 november 1793) was van 1785 tot 1793 hertog van Orléans en Valois. Tijdens de Franse Revolutie veranderde hij zijn naam in Philippe Égalité ("Filips Gelijkheid"). Hij stierf als slachtoffer van de Terreur onder de guillotine. Zijn zoon Lodewijk Filips werd in 1830 koning van Frankrijk.

Grace Dalrymple Elliott (c. 1754 – 16 May 1823) was a Scottish courtesan, writer and spy resident in Paris during the French Revolution. She was an eyewitness to events detailed in her memoirs, Journal of my life during the French Revolution (Ma Vie sous la Révolution) published posthumously in 1859. She was mistress, first to the future George IV, by whom she is said to have borne an illegitimate daughter, and then to the Duke of Orléans. Elliott trafficked correspondence and helped condemned Royalists and members of the French nobility escape from the First French Republic during the Reign of Terror. She was arrested several times but managed to avoid the guillotine, and was released following the military coup that ended the Terror and resulted in the execution of Robespierre.

In the acclaimed but widely controversial 2001 film adaptation of her memoirs by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer as The Lady and the Duke, Grace Elliot was played by English actress Lucy Russell.

Caroline-Stéphanie-Félicité, Madame de Genlis (25 January 1746 – 31 December 1830) was a French writer of the late 18th and early 19th century, known for her novels and theories of children's education. She is now best remembered for her journals and the historical perspective they provide on her life and times.