X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Charles X of France


Charles X of France

On the same day, after much cajoling by Chateaubriand, Charles agreed to a meeting with his daughter-in-law, which took place in Leoben on 13 October 1833.

Charles, Duke of Berry

Charles X of France (1757–1836) was previously Charles, Duke of Berry

Líbero Badaró

During a public manifestation of liberal students who were commemorating the liberal revolution in France which had deposed King Charles X, he was assassinated.

Siege of Constantine

As Charles X tried in 1830 with the expedition to Algiers, the king of the French was seeking a better result in the elections by offering the country a little military glory and revenge for Clausel's failed expedition against Constantine in 1836.


Augustin-Marie d'Aboville

Taking a brief part to the July Revolution of 1830, which saw the ousting of King Charles X, d'Aboville was then included in the reserve on 22 March 1831.

Charles Alexandre de Calonne

He was present with the Count of Artois, the reactionary brother of Louis XVI, at Pillnitz in August 1791 at the time of the issuance of the Declaration of Pillnitz, an attempt to intimidate the revolutionary government of France that the Count of Artois pressed for.

George Nayler

A year later, Nayler succeeded Heard as Garter and went on foreign missions to award the Garter to Frederick VI of Denmark in 1822, John VI of Portugal (who created Nayler a Knight Commander of the Order of the Tower and Sword) in 1823, Charles X of France in 1825 and Nicholas I of Russia in 1827.

Holy Ampulla

These were placed in a new reliquary made in time for the coronation of Charles X four days later which is now displayed at the Palace of Tau.

Jean Michel Constant Leber

When the question of the coronation of Louis XVIII arose, he wrote, as an answer to Volney, a minute treatise on the Harmonies du sacre, which was published at the time of the coronation of Charles X.

Jean-François Jacqueminot

Elected to the House of Deputies in 1827, he joined in the protest of the Two Hundred and Twenty-one against Polignac, and with Pajol directed the Rambouillet expedition which led Charles X to leave France.

Louise d'Esparbès de Lussan

Marie Louise d’Esparbès de Lussan, by marriage vicomtesse then comtesse de Polastron (Bardigues, 19 October 1764 – London, 27 March 1804) was a member of the Esparbès de Lussan family and the mistress of the comte d’Artois, who later reigned as Charles X of France.

Marche Henri IV

Marche Henri IV was a common leitmotif for French royalty in several 19th century works, such as in Gioachino Rossini's opera Il viaggio a Reims (in the finale, when Charles X is crowned) and in the final march in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty.

Philippe Charles Tronson du Coudray

Well connected to the French court (he once tutored the future Charles X on military affairs), du Coudray was a leading proponent of the Gribeauval system of artillery in the Seven Years' War.

Trocadéro

The place was named in honour of the Battle of Trocadero, in which the fortified Isla del Trocadero, in southern Spain, was captured by French forces led by the Duc d'Angoulême, son of the future king, Charles X, on August 31, 1823.


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