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True, but there are plenty of examples of him acting like a dick(mainly with his mistresses).

It's Louis XIV, what did you expect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis,_Count_of_Vermandois The Wikipedia page says he was 'only' involved with the Chevalier de Lorraine, Philippe I's lover(as well as others), but I've also read both of them were involved(and Louise de la Vallière(his mother)'s page mentions he was involved in a...

Signs point to 'yes'.

Well, yes. Which brings us to the big problem with regards to French monarchists, they only desired the return of the monarchy if their candidate was the one sitting on the chair.... As an aside, I think that the Bourbon would have been spared a lot of grief if Louis XIV had shoved red-hot iron...

Probably yes. He had some reasons to be pissed off at a symbol of the hated republicans(remember, the guy was raised by Louis XVI's daughter, which life had done no favours to), but I think he'd be at the very least more amenable to a compromise.

The Count of Chambord, you mean? I don't think it was honor. Rather, it was the fact that, after he died, the Orléans branch would inherit the throne. The same family that stabbed the Bourbons in the back twice, the first time with Philippe Egalité, the second time with Louis Philippe. There was...

Heh. I'm old enough to remember the 1980's Korean riots being shown on evening news. Things were... intense.