Charles X
King of France · 1824-1830 · born on 9 October 1757, died on 6 November 1836
Brother of Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, Charles X succeeded the latter in 1824, at over sixty. A legitimist king, he pursued a policy of return to the Ancien Régime: coronation at Reims (1825), compensation for the émigrés, growing weight of the Church and the ultras.
In 1829 he entrusted the government to the unpopular prince of Polignac. After the dissolution of the Chamber and unfavourable elections, he promulgated four restrictive ordinances in July 1830, which provoked the insurrection of the Three Glorious Days (27-29 July 1830).
Forced to abdicate on 2 August 1830 in favour of his son Louis-Antoine, who immediately renounced in favour of the count of Chambord, he went into exile in the United Kingdom and died in 1836 at Görz, in the Austrian empire. The last king of the senior Bourbon branch to reign in France.
In the tree of power
- Era: Restoration
- Predecessor: Louis XVIII (1814-1824)
- Successors: Louis XIX (1830), Henri V (1830)