A Year of Changes in Europe

The French revolution and the Napoleonic Empire were dominant elements in the European history during a long period of time, and the consequences of these processes were lasting and hard to destroy. The political reaction after Napoleon's defeat was to return to the past government. The progressive development of a better understanding of the new ideas and its natural spreading throughout Europe, as a consequence of Napoleonic conquers, produced a social movement strong enough to resist the forces of conservative reaction. The accounts of the outbreak of the 1830 revolution in France and in Belgium are great examples of this.
France 1830, the July Revolution
Charles X was a bourbon King and a very conservative one, he grew up convinced of the necessity of a total restoration of the "Ancient Regime" as the only legitimate system of government. …