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Excerpt from The Duchess of Berry: And the Revolution of 1830 At the Tuileries, the year 1830 opened with the same ceremonial, the same protestations of devotion as its predecessors. The first of January was both a national solemnity and a family festival. Charles X.was far enough from dreaming that it was the last New Years Day he would spend in the palace of his fathers, and even his most relentless adversaries did not believe that his downfall was so near. Seated on his throne and receiving the homage of the great departments of State, he still possessed the full prestige of a sovereignty which seemed above all attacks from the Revolution; for, since the Charter, the ministers alone were responsible, the King not at all. At this time the old monarch persuaded himself that he would have no need of coups d'etat to maintain his throne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.