Charles X. of France

he only French king buried outside France

After the French Revolution of 1793, which saw the beheading of King Louis XVI, France endured twelve years as a republic before Napoleon's Empire and later the Bourbon Restoration. The monarchy finally came to an end in 1830 with the July Revolution. To avoid his predecessor's fate, King Charles X fled. The upheaval was famously captured by Eugène Delacroix in his 1830 painting Liberty Leading the People, marking the end of more than three centuries of Bourbon rule in France.

After a brief stay in Edinburgh, Charles X and his entourage of around a hundred people fled first to Prague, then — at the suggestion of the Austrian emperor — to spend the winter in Gorizia. Only 17 days after arriving, however, Charles X died of cholera. His final wish was to be buried at Kapela, which he could see every day from the window of his room in the Coronini-Cronberg Palace (p. 107).

Avtor: Blaž Kosovel

Kraj: Gorizia

Vir:

Renato Podbersič: Kaj je tega treba bilo ali Burboni pri nas,  Revija Razpotja, št. 25/26, zima 2016

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