The charter and all existing conditions were modified to conform to this ideal, and on the 9th of August the reign of the constitutional king began.
It was the middle class in France which supported this reign; the class below that would never forget that he was, after all, a Bourbon and a king; while the two classes above, both royalists and imperialists, were unfriendly, one regarding him as a usurper on the throne of the legitimate king, and the other as a weakling unfit to occupy the throne of Napoleon.
When Charles X.tried to secure the banishment of the families of the men who had voted for the death of Louis XVI., he may have had in mind his cousin, the son of Philippe Egalite, the wickedest and most despicable of the regicides.

Whatever his father had been, Louis Philippe was far from being a wicked man.

Whether teaching school in Switzerland, or giving French lessons in America, he was the kindest-hearted and most inoffensive of gentlemen.

The only trouble with this reign was that it was not heroic.

The most emotional and romantic people in Europe had a common-place king.