Charles X of France

We will have a duck and fixings.

You shall dine like Charles X.

All is going well.'' Then he added, ''The mouse-trap is open.

The cats are there.'' He lowered his voice still further and said, ''Put this in the fire.'' marius heard the sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some iron utensil and jondrette continued have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak yes replied the mother what time is it nearly six the half hour struck from st madar a while ago the devil ejaculated jondrette the children must go and watch come you do you listen here a whispering ensued jondrette's voice became audible again has old bougain left yes said the mother are you sure that there is no one in our neighbour's room he has not been in all day and you know very well that this is his dinner hour you are sure sure All the same, says Jean Drette, there's no harm in going to see whether he is there.

His wife was talking to him in a low tone.

If Marius had been Kouferak, that is to say, one of those men who laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when his gaze fell on the Jean Drette woman.

She had on a black bonnet with plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning.

It was this toilette which had extracted from Jeandrette the exclamation, Good, you have dressed up.

This episode is a collaboration with David Montgomery, host of the Siècle podcast covering French history from 1814 to 1914.

David has just explored the July Revolution of 1830, when Charles X, the younger brother of Louis XVI, is toppled from his throne and replaced by King Louis-Philippe.

King Louis Philippe's father is our own Duke d'Orléans, the so-called Philippe Egalité.

So, we thought it was time to sit down and discuss him properly.

One was the growing clout as a center of opposition, and the other was the detachment from the royal family.

So once Louis XV dies, there's, I suppose, a bit of an opportunity for the Duc d'Orléans to kind of become closer with the grandsons of Louis XV.

So that would be Louis XVI, and then the future Louis XVIII and Charles X, but the Comte de Provence and the Comte d'Artois in our kind of timeline.

There's this opportunity that they could maybe kind of become the cadet branch, could, I suppose, move closer to the ruling dynasty.

No one hated him.

But they attacked the younger branch of the divine right of Louis Philippe as they had attacked its elder branch in Charles X.

And that which they wished to overturn in overturning royalty in France was, as we have explained, the usurpation of man over man and of privilege over right in the entire universe.

Paris without a king has as result the world without despots.

Napoleon built, the figures are curious, 4,804 meters.

Louis XVIII, 5,709.

Charles X, 10,836.

Louis Philippe, 89,020.

After the fall of Napoleon and the return of the Bourbon monarchy, Louis XVIII also considered moving back to the palace where he was born.

He ordered repairs to the royal apartments and rebuilt part of the south wing to create a more uniform appearance at the entrance, but neither he nor Charles X ever chose to live there.

A major shift occurred in 1820 when Louis-Philippe came to power.

He decided to transform the building into a museum dedicated to the history of France, celebrating all the glories of the nation.

To do so, he began to study Coptic, the modern Egyptian language, adding the final piece to his knowledge puzzle.

Living in Paris and still working on the ancient stone, it was on September 17, 1822, that Champollion ran out his door at No. 28 Rue Mazarin, yelling, "'I got it!' Four years later, Champollion was named the first curator of the ancient Egyptian collection of the Louvre by Charles X, 200 years ago this year, opening May 15, 1826.

He and his brother created four rooms filled with Egyptian antiquities.

These rooms were on the ground floor in the southeast corner of the Sully Wing in the Corcarré today.

Negotiations followed with other government officials joining in, including Isidore Justin Taylor.

The playwright also dabbled in archaeology and loved antiquities.

Asked by Charles X to help negotiate the gift, he sailed to Luxor and worked alongside Champollion.

The Luxor Temple of Amon dates to the 14th century BC and was built as a place of worship to the Egyptian god Amon.

She later went to live in Austria and eventually married her cousin, Louis, the son of her father's younger brother.

And he became King Charles X for France for a few years.

Long story.

Then there was another revolution, much smaller than the first one.

There the inviolability of the crown has been like the ring in the comic fairy tale which possessed the remarkable quality that from whatever height the wearer happened to fall the jewel remained uninjured.

louis the sixteenth was inviolable by the constitution at the moment of his execution charles x and louis philippe when they were exiled why establish a principle it may be said to which neither side will adhere le roi le voulait was the excuse of the ordinances and the king fell mori fuggendo e disfiorendo il roi regne et gouverne was the cry of the opposition and louis philippe fled assuredly the english people would not thus have punished any desire of family aggrandizement and that family honest amiable and patriotic which wore at least the colour of the firm establishment of a constitutional dynasty and if an unscrupulous and unjust use was made of the enormous patronage of which the government was the disposer the proper remedy would have lain in some diminution of the means of favour.

to expect that any executive should hold that machinery of influence in its hand and not use it for political purposes argues more faith and less sagacity than the French people usually possess.

And it is singular that, up to the present moment, no serious attempt seems to be in contemplation to diminish this inevitable source of corruption to the nation and demoralisation to the government.

And they changed everything and started their first republic.

Well, with a little interlude for Napoleon Bonaparte, when he took over because the reign of terror had gotten so out of control and people were willing to take a dictator position, They reestablished that first republic again, and eventually they overthrew Charles X, and had Louis-Philippe, he was known as the Citizen King, because he was much more open to the Constitution.

But even he eventually became corrupt, and the people revolted, and so they started in 1848 their second republic.

When you think about that, that's also the year that communism got started with Karl Marx over in Germany, and there were revolts in Germany and Hungary throughout all of Europe.