The Fall of King Louis Philippe

Dutokville: One could make a weird collection of all the utterly dissimilar mistakes that have been fathered one by the other. There is Charles I, driven into arbitrary behavior and violence by seeing how the spirit of opposition flourished under his father. Louis XVI determined to put up with everything because Charles I had perished unwilling to put upwith anything. Then Charles X, provoking a revolution because he witnessed Louis XVI's weakness. And finally, King Louis Philippe, who imagined that all he had to do to remain on the throne was to corrupt it without violating the law.