
6.02- Charles The Simple
Revolutions
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Louis Centrist Instincts
When the political environment started out away too far to the right, with the incredible chamber of 18 16, louis dissolved them and brought everyone back to the middle. By 18 20, again, the centre reasserted itself and things returned to a middle ground after the law of the double vote swung things back to the extreme right. But when charles ascended to the throne in september of ten 24, he didn't yet know how much resistance he would eventually face. Even though he didn't want to compromise, it was actually weigh harder to rule by arbitrary fiot than he imagined it would be. And he was forced to swallow five years of embarrassing royal weakness before he finally blew
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