The King of the French

Louis Philippe, "King of the French," succeeded Charles X. in 1830.

On account of his republican principles, he was exempted from the decree by which the French Revolutionists banished the Bourbon family in 1792.

At a later period he had to flee from France, and he spent twenty years in exile and poverty in different parts of Europe and America.

When Bonaparte fell, Louis Philippe returned to Paris, and was welcomed by many friends. After the Revolution of July, 1830, Louis Philippe was recalled to the throne, not as "King of France," but as "King of the French:" this change in the title was made to show that he reigned, not by his own right, but by the will of the people.

The "Citizen King," as he was called, soon lost his popularity: the people missed the splendor to which they had been accustomed around the throne, and the consequence was another revolution in 1848. The king fled again to England, and died there at Clermont, near London, in 1850, aged seventy-seven. France was immediately declared a republic, and has never since had a king. Louis Napoleon, however, was Emperor of France from 1852 to 1870.