Funeral monument of Louis-Charles d'Orleans, Count of Beaujolais. The brother of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans died in Malta in 1808. He had come to the island hoping to be cured by the climate from the illness that would lead him to his grave. The Knights of Jerusalem had already been expelled in 1798 by Bonaparte; a year later Malta was occupied by the British. The two branches of the French royal family were in exile. When in 1830 Louis Philippe was crowned king by the French in the revolution that took the throne from his cousins, he remembered his brother who had died so many years before and commissioned the sculptor Pradier this languid gisant in a naval officer's uniform, which was placed on the tomb in 1844