Charles X

Related to Charles X: Louis XVIII

Charles X

1757-1836.

King of France (1824-1830) who dissolved the Chamber of Deputies, restricted freedom of the press, and launched an invasion of Algeria (1830). He abdicated as a result of the July Revolution of 1830 and went into exile.

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Charles X

1. (Biography) title of Charles Gustavus. 1622–60, king of Sweden, who warred with Poland and Denmark in an attempt to create a unified Baltic state

2. (Biography) 1757–1836, king of France (1824–30): his attempt to restore absolutism led to his enforced exile

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He was the first to paint a black cap on Charles X.'s head on the five- franc coins.

Raising the anagram to the height of a science, he declared that the destiny of every man was written in the words or phrase given by the transposition of the letters of his names and titles; and his patriotism struggled hard to suppress the fact--signal evidence for his theory--that in Horatio Nelson, "honor est a Nilo." Ever since the accession of Charles X., he had bestowed much thought on the king's anagram.

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By 1827, Charles X had been on the throne for three years and his style of government derived from a firm belief in the principles of royal power, the Catholic Church and the rights of the nobility.

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