THIS SCHOOLBOOK OF 1966 LISTS POLITICAL FACTS DIVORCED FROM TANGIBLE INTERESTS
The upheaval comes from breaking the Constitution. There is no mention of the issue that leads to that or of the capitalists who take over.
"Did Polignac have to retire? The Charter did not oblige the king to choose his ministers among the Chamber's majority. Rather than cede, Charles X preferred dissolution, but the electors returned a hostile majority. Then the king, by the Four Ordinances pronounced the dissolution of the new Chamber, modified the electoral regime and the regime of the press by his own authority. It was a veritable coup d'état: the Charter did not allow the king to make up the law (July 25, 1830).
Pushed by secret societies where young republicans were numerous, by journalists, by patrons exciting their workers, the people of Paris revolted against the ordinances. The rebels flew the tricolor. After three days of street fighting (the "Three Glorious Days," July 27,28, 29 1830) in which the royal guard was engaged — the rest of the army abstained from fighting — the capital was lost for Charles X."
Recent textbooks divide similar facts into themes that are more palatable, but as incomprehensible.
The economy appears
in unconnected chapters.
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