Question

In which year did the revolt against Charles $X$ take place?
A) 1820
B) 1840
C) 1850
D) 1830

Answer 1

Hint: From September 16, 1824, to August 2, 1830, Charles X reigned as King of France. He supported the latter in exile as an uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother of reigning Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII.

Complete answer:
Following the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Charles (as heir-presumptive) became the leader of the ultra-royalists, a strong monarchist movement within the French court that upheld divine right rule and opposed the Charter of 1814's concessions to liberals and guarantees of civil liberties.

After his son Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry was assassinated in 1820, Charles acquired influence inside the French court and eventually replaced his brother in 1824. In 1830, an uprising against Charles X took place. It was known as the 1830 July Revolution. Louis-Philippe was crowned King of France as a result of this revolution.

On August 2, Charles X and his son, the Dauphin, abdicated the crown and left for the United Kingdom. Although Charles had planned for his grandson, the Duke of Bordeaux, to become Henry V, the interim government instead installed a distant cousin, Louis Philippe of the House of Orléans, on the throne, who consented to rule as a constitutional monarch. The publishing on July 26 by Charles X of restrictive ordinances counter to the spirit of the Charter of 1814 sparked the revolution.

Thus, the correct answer is Option (D) 1830.

Note: Charles' political awakening began with the monarchy's first great crisis in 1786 when it became clear that the kingdom had become impoverished as a result of earlier military endeavours and required budgetary reform to live. Charles favoured the aristocracy's financial privileges being removed, but he opposed any loss in the social privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic Church or the nobility.