Charles X (Comte d'Artois) was king of France. He was born in 1757 at Versailles and died in 1836. The grandson of Louis XV, he was the youngest son of the dauphin, and brother of Louis XVI. He left France in 1789, after the first popular insurrection and destruction of the Bastille, and afterwards assuming the command of a body of emigrants, acted in concert with the Austrian and Prussian armies on the Rhine. Despairing of success he retired to Great Britain and resided for several years in the palace of Holyrood at Edinburgh. He entered France at the Restoration, and in 1824 succeeded his brother, Louis XVIII as king. In a short time his reactionary policy brought him into conflict with the popular party, and in 1830 a revolution drove him from the throne, and he resided in Britain until 1832 when he moved to Hungary.
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