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Brewer's: Egalité Philippe
Duc d'Orléans, father of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, was so called because he sided with the revolutionary party, whose motto was “Liberty, fraternity, and equality.” Philippe Egalité was guillotined in 1793.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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