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A blog by Elena Maria Vidal.
... Poor Charles X. is dead, it is said of the cholera. I regret him;
few people were ever kinder to me than the good old man. He was blinded
by certain absolute ideas, but a good man, and deserving to be loved.
History will state that Louis XVIII was a most liberal monarch, reigning
with great mildness and justice to his end, but that his brother, from
his despotic and harsh disposition, upset all the other had done, and
lost the throne. Louis XVIII was a clever, hard-hearted man, shackled by
no principle, very proud and false. Charles X was an honest man, a kind
friend, an honourable master, sincere in his opinions, and inclined to
do everything that is right. (Read more.)
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Leopold I was an astute man.
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