ORLEANS, HOUSE OF, a branch of the royal family of France. Besides those who succeeded to the king by title, the following are the Dukes of Orleans who play a prominent part in the history of their country. Louis, the second surviving son of Charles V., who was born in 1371, became regent to his brother Charles VI. in 1393, and was murdered by the Duke of Burgundy in 1407; Philippe, the celebrated regent, who was born in 1674, succeeded to the regency after the death of Louis XIV. in 1715, and died in 1723; and Louis Philippe Joseph, the father of the late French king, Louis Philippe, who was born in 1747, renounced his family title for the assumed name of Egalité, during the revolutionary tumults of 1792, and was guillotined in the following year. (See FRANCE.)