Charles X of France
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Charles X was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to former reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the l
Coronation Portrait of Charles X (1825)
Portrait of Charles-Philippe by Catherine Read, 1764
Charles as Count of Artois in 1798, by Henri-Pierre Danloux
Portrait of the Count of Artois (future Charles X) in the habit of the Order of the Holy Spirit, by Antoine-François Callet, c. 1775
Louis Philippe I
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Louis Philippe I, nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the last French monarch to bear the title "King", and the only French monarch
Charles X of France
…press censorship. Within a week, Paris faced urban riots which led to the July Revolution of 1830, which resulted in his abdication and the election of Louis Philippe I as King of the French. He was the last of the French rulers from the senior branch of the House of Bourbon. Exiled once again, Charles died in 1836 in…
Portrait of Louis Philippe I by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1841
Profile of the 13-year-old Louis Philippe d'Orléans, drawn by Carle Vernet (27 August 1787)
Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, in 1792 by Léon Cogniet (1834)
Early in his exile, Louis Philippe was a teacher of geography, history, mathematics and modern languages, at a boys' boarding school in Reichenau, Switzerland.