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'' of the royal court of

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, he was named

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of Paris on 13 August 1829. Due to the coup of

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and the Prince of Polignac in July 1830, he stated that "what we did was right, Paris didn't move, and it responded at its head."cited by José Cabanis, ''Charles X, roi ultra'', p. 425 On 27 July 1830, he ordered the seizure of four presses of journalists who, contrary to the

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, were publishing without authorisation. This was the signal for the typographers revolt which set about the 1830 revolution.

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