He was not content with according him a title of honor; he gave him something much more solid, by causing to be returned to him, with the consent of the Chambers, the former domain and privileges of the House of Orleans.  This was not easy.  It required not only the good-will of the Chateau, but the vote of the Chambers, and the majority was hardly favorable to the Duke of Orleans, of whom it cherished the same suspicions as Louis XVIII.  The Duchess of Berry pleaded warmly the cause of her aunt’s husband, and conspired with Charles X. against the Right, the members of which in this case believed it a service to royalty to disobey the King.  The opposition to the project seemed likely to be so strong, that the government was obliged to commit a sort of moral violence upon the Chamber of Deputies.  The King directed his ministers to join in some way the question of the apanages of the House of Orleans with the disposition of his own civil list.  The King thought that the sentiments of the Chamber for himself and his family would make them adopt the whole en bloc.  It was a device of his kindliness, a sort of smuggling in the King’s coach, as was said by M. de Labourdonnaye.  A large number of deputies demanded a division of the question.  The ministers had to make great efforts and mount the tribune many times to defend the measure, which passed only by a very feeble majority.  The Duke of Orleans, now at the very height of his desires, thanked Charles X. with effusion.

Nor was this all; from the millions of indemnity to the emigres, the Duke of Orleans drew 14,000,000 francs.  The opposition chiefs of the Left imitated the Prince and profited largely by the law that they had opposed and condemned.  The Duke of Choiseul obtained 1,100,000 francs, the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt 1,400,000 francs, M. Gaetan de La Rochefoucauld 1,429,000 francs, General Lafayette himself 1,450,000 francs.

The Orleanist party was already beginning to take form, perhaps without the knowledge of its chief.  In his pamphlets of 1824, Paul-Louis Courier devoted himself to separating the older from the younger branch of the House, declaring that he should like to be a resident of a commune of Paris if the Duke of Orleans were its mayor, for from a Prince the Duke had become a man during the Emigration, and had never begged bread of a foreign hand.  Louis-Philippe continued prudently the role he had played at the end of the first Restoration and during the Hundred Days.  While professing an obsequious and enthusiastic respect for Charles X., he secretly flattered the Bonapartists and the Liberals.  He sent his eldest son to the public school, as if to insinuate that he remained faithful to the ideas of equality from which his father had gained his surname.  He made very welcome the coryphees of the Opposition, such as General Foy and M. Laffitte, to the Palais Royal, and received them in halls where the brush of Horace Vernet had represented