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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3110

Autographs
France
Charles X
1816 (19 April) a written request to the Count of Artois for a captain who lost his arm in the battle of Wilma to be admitted to the Hotel des Invalides. The autograph recommendation is signed "Charles Phillipe". The document with three red secretariat handstamps and other signatures. In a good state of preservation. Photo

Charles X (Charles Philippe; 1757 – 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. For most of his life he was known as the Count of Artois. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII, and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile and eventually succeeded him.


His rule of almost six years ended in the July Revolution of 1830, which resulted in his abdication and the election of Louis Philippe I as King of the French. Exiled once again, Charles died in 1836 in Gorizia, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was the last of the French rulers from the senior branch of the House of Bourbon.

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