Editing Charles Emmanuel IV (section)

==Reign==
At the death of his father (14 October 1796), Charles Emmanuel succeeded as King of Sardinia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BHIBAAAAQAAJ&dq=Charles+Emmanuel+IV+of+Sardinia&pg=PA60 Beeton, Samuel Orchant. ''Beeton's Modern European Celebrities. A Biography of Continental Men and Women of Note'', Ward, Lock&Company, 1874, p. 60]</ref> The kingdom included not only the island of Sardinia but also significant territories in northwest [[Italy]] including all of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]].

At his succession to the throne in 1796, Sardinia had been forced to conclude the disadvantageous [[Treaty of Paris (1796)]] with the [[French First Republic|French Republic]], giving the French army free passage through Piedmont. On 6 December 1798 the French, under [[Barthélemy Catherine Joubert|Joubert]], occupied Turin and forced Charles Emanuel to abdicate all his territories on the Italian mainland and to withdraw to the island of Sardinia,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fYH7AQAAQBAJ&dq=Charles+Emmanuel+IV+of+Sardinia&pg=PA114 ''Southern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places'', (Trudy Ring, Noelle Watson, Paul Schellinger, eds.) Routledge, 2013, p. 116] {{ISBN|978-1134259656}}</ref> which stayed out of the reach of the French army. The following year he tried unsuccessfully to regain [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]. He and his wife lived in [[Rome]] and in [[Naples]] as guests of the wealthy [[Colonna family]].