Brewer's: Citizen King

(The). Louis Philippe of France. So called because he was elected king by the citizens of Paris. (Born 1773, reigned 1830-1848, died 1850.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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