I am Louis Philippe II, King of the French, I was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. I abdicated from his throne during the French Revolution of 1848, which led to the foundation of the French Second Republic. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, I distinguished myself commanding troops during the French Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to lieutenant general by the age of eighteen, but I broke with the Republic over its decision to execute King Louis XVI. I fled to Switzerland in 1793 after being connected with a plot to restore France's monarchy.