Editing Charles X of France (section)

==Life in exile==
[[File:Blue Plaque Charles X of France.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|A [[Blue plaque]] at 72 [[South Audley Street]], [[Mayfair]], London, his home between 1805 and 1814]]
Charles and his family decided to seek refuge in [[Savoy]], his wife's native country,<ref>Fraser, p. 340.</ref> where they were joined by some members of the [[Princes of Condé|Condé]] family.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nagel |first=Susan |title=Marie Thérèse: Child of Terror |date=18 March 2008 |isbn=978-1-5969-1057-7 |page=65 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |oclc=177826440 |ol=12443706M}}</ref> Meanwhile, in Paris, Louis XVI was struggling with the National Assembly, which was committed to radical reforms and had enacted the [[French Constitution of 1791|Constitution of 1791]]. In March 1791, the Assembly also enacted a [[Regent|regency]] bill that provided for the case of the king's premature death. While his heir [[Louis XVII|Louis-Charles]] was still a minor, the [[Louis XVIII|Count of Provence]], the Duke of Orléans or, if either was unavailable, someone chosen by election should become regent, completely passing over the rights of Charles who, in the royal lineage, stood between the Count of Provence and the Duke of Orléans.<ref>Fraser, p. 383.</ref>

Charles meanwhile left [[Turin]] (in Italy) and moved to [[Trier]] in Germany, where his uncle, [[Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony]], was the incumbent [[Prince-Elector|Archbishop-Elector]]. Charles prepared for a [[counter-revolutionary]] invasion of France, but a letter by Marie Antoinette postponed it until after the [[French royal family|royal family]] had escaped from Paris and joined a concentration of regular troops under [[François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé]] at [[Montmédy]].<ref>Price, p. 170</ref>

After the [[Flight to Varennes|attempted flight]] was stopped at [[Varennes-en-Argonne|Varennes]], Charles moved on to [[Koblenz]], where he, the recently escaped Count of Provence and the Princes of Condé jointly declared their intention to invade France. The Count of Provence was sending dispatches to various European sovereigns for assistance, while Charles set up a [[Government in exile|court-in-exile]] in the [[Electorate of Trier]]. On 25 August, the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and [[Prussia]] issued the [[Declaration of Pillnitz]], which called on other European powers to intervene in France.<ref>Nagel, p. 113.</ref>

On New Year's Day 1792, the National Assembly declared all [[Emigration|emigrants]] traitors, repudiated their titles and confiscated their lands.<ref>Nagel, p. 118.</ref> This measure was followed by the suspension and eventually the [[Abolition of monarchy|abolition of the monarchy]] in September 1792. The royal family was imprisoned, and the former king and former queen were eventually executed in 1793.<ref>Fraser, pp. 399, 440, 456; Nagel, p. 143.</ref> The young former dauphin died of illnesses and neglect in 1795.<ref>Nagel, p. 152-153.</ref>

When the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] broke out in 1792, Charles escaped to Great Britain, where King [[George III]] gave him a generous allowance. Charles lived in [[Edinburgh]] and London with his mistress [[Louise de Polastron]].<ref>Nagel, p. 207.</ref> His older brother, dubbed Louis XVIII after the death of his nephew in June 1795, relocated to [[Verona]] and then to [[Jelgava Palace]], [[Mitau]], where Charles' son Louis Antoine married Louis XVI's only surviving child, Marie Thérèse, on 10 June 1799. In 1802, Charles supported his brother with several thousand pounds. In 1807, Louis XVIII moved to the United Kingdom.<ref>Nagel, pp. 210, 222, 233–235.</ref>