The Restored Bourbon monarchy in france had learnt nothing and forgotten nothing Discuss the validity of this statement with Charles X. In summary, the issue here is that Charles X was ultimately overthrown because he had learnt nothing from the french peoples oppostion to monarchical absolutism in 1789 which led to revolution. In 1789, French people rejected the notion of the divine right of kings where kings had absolute power derived from God and decided on a political system of constitutionalism. This is what Charles X rejected when he (in)famously declared that he would rather chop wood than reign after the fashion of the king of England who was a constitutional ruler. So when Charles X came to power in 1824, he learnt nothing about the rejection of monarchical absolutism and tried to bring it back. In 1830 he even issued ordinances at St Cloud to remove pipo from the voters roll and dissolved the Chamber of deputies to get rid of those deputies who threatened his absolutist tendencies. That is why he was overthrown in 1830 because he had learnt nothing about the third estates demand for a share of political power. he had forgot nothing about the divine right of kings, the close alliance between the monarchy and the clergy as well the nobles. he therefore tried to restore that system of the ancien regime leading to his overthrow
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