On what date was Philippe Égalité, Duke of Orléans, executed?

Philippe Égalité, Duke of Orléans, was executed on November 6, 1793. He was born Louis Philippe Joseph d’Orléans and was a cousin of King Louis XVI.

During the Revolution, he adopted the name Philippe Égalité and supported the movement’s reformist and republican principles. As a deputy in the National Convention, he famously voted for Louis XVI’s execution, despite their family relationship.

That vote did not protect him from revolutionary suspicion. After his son, Louis Philippe, became associated with General Dumouriez’s attempted defection, Philippe Égalité was arrested and held for months. The Revolutionary Tribunal tried him in Paris on November 6, 1793, sentenced him to death, and sent him to the guillotine the same day.

A common mix-up is confusing his execution with those of Louis XVI, who was guillotined on January 21, 1793, or Marie Antoinette, executed on October 16, 1793. Philippe Égalité’s death came later, during the Reign of Terror.