Who overthrew Charles x in France in 1830 and what kind of government was established?

Answer 1

Charles was overthrown for a number of reasons:

• Many people felt threatened by his extremist religious views, he was a Roman catholic and still believed in the divine right of kings. He proposed a sacrilege law, which mean that anybody caught damaging or defacing a Roman catholic church or item in the church would be subjected to execution. This led people to think that Charles wanted a return to the "Ancien Regime" where the church had a lot of power over things such as education, and even politics. Extreme Catholic policies.
• Refusal to remove the double vote for rich nobility. This led to outrage from the Liberals because he had willingly broken the rules of the charter.
• Refusal to compensate the emigres after they lost much of their land and money just to benefit worthless aristocrats.
• Lack of political skill
• Tried to dismantle the charter, which did not go down well with the Liberals or the Pays-Legal.
• Didn't use the military to back up his initiative. Led to failure when riots occurred because he did not have militant support. He underestimated the amount of people that would rebel against him. He didn't arrest any potential leaders of uprisings so they were all free to protest against him. When there were riots in Paris, he did not have enough troops present to protect him, or the aristocracy from the threat of the lower class rioters.
• Alienated all social classes. Charles did not care much for the lower class and only focused on the old rich aristocracy that had prospered during the Ancien Regime.
• Many people were very against a return to the Ancien Regime because it had been so tough for them the first time.
• Personality and personal qualities. Arrogant and thought he knew everything when really he was very uneducated in some of the things he needed to know most about, e.g. politics.