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Wikipedia: Philippe d'Orléans, petit-fils de France, Duke of Orléans (Philippe Charles; 2 August 1674 – 2 December 1723) was a member of the royal family of France and served as Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723. Born at his father's palace at Saint-Cloud, he was known from birth under the title of Duke of Chartres. His father was Louis XIV's younger brother Philippe de France, known as Monsieur; his mother was Elizabeth Charlotte, a German princess of the House of Wittelsbach.

[Painting of the young Abbess of Chelles, daughter of the Regent of France, Pierre Gobert] [Louis XV as a child, by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1715)]
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[Philippe's father, wearing the Order of the Holy Spirit.] [Philippe in 1686 by Nicolas de Largillière.]
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