Could Louis-Philippe have kept his thrown in France?

I've always been confused as to how he lost his thrown to begin with. But could he have done anything to defeat the revolutionaries and keep his thrown? How would this have affected history?
 
It all depends on what your PoD you want is. Louis-Phillipe probably could have kept his throne for the time being if he were more willing to use military force to suppress the Revolution early on. This wouldn’t really help and would certainly have led to his downfall at a point not far in the future (think Charles X)

If you don’t want a February Revolution at all, you can prevent Louis-Phillips’s government from outlawing the political banquets that had popped up all over France pre-1848. The banning of them severely discontented many and brought the intellectuals onto the side of the Paris mob (who were suffering from economic hardships in 1848) and allowed a united front against the Paris government. Preventing the banning of banquets wouldn’t solve all of the French problems of 1848 (namely the social questions like the Droit au travail) but it would be a start.
 
I don't see how this could be easily accomplished. Phillippe was never particularly athletic as a child and his arms only got weaker with age. Perhaps if you somehow introduce baseball to 19th century France and he takes it up?
 
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What about the Prince Royal NOT dying? He was pretty popular and even if Louis Philippe DOES have to abdicate in 1848, there won't be a similar regency question popping up as did in 1830? Nemours was unacceptable as regent to the liberals because he was a conservative, while the Princesse Royal was unacceptable to the conservatives/Catholics because she was a Protestant
 
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