He retained as escort only the bodyguards and the gendarmerie, with six pieces of cannon.Continuing Absolutism Ends in France,our selection from

Obeyed as a father but impotent and outraged as a king, Charles X, on the breaking up of his council, wrote that letter to the Duke of Orleans which

The King placed such confidence in these treacherous professions that he confirmed the Duke's appointment and thus helped to drive his own supporters