He pursued a moderate course after realizing that the French people would not accept a return to the Old Order. The aristocrats diehards resisted for they wanted to erase the past 25 years of French history and restore the power and privileges of the church and the aristocracy. The new government aroused the hostility of the bourgeoisie by indemnifying the emigres for the property they had lost during the Revolution, censoring the press, and giving the church greater control over education. In the election of 1830, the liberal opposition to Charles X won a decisive victory. He responded with the July Ordinances that dissolved the newly elected Chamber of Deputies; the ordinances also deprived rich bourgeois of the vote and severely curbed the press. The conventional, students and workers rebelled viewing themselves as heirs of the Jacobins; they hoped to establish a republic although the wealthy bourgeois who took control of the revolution feared Republican
He pursued a moderate course after realizing that the French people would not accept a return to the Old Order. The aristocrats diehards resisted for they wanted to erase the past 25 years of French history and restore the power and privileges of the church and the aristocracy. The new government aroused the hostility of the bourgeoisie by indemnifying the emigres for the property they had lost during the Revolution, censoring the press, and giving the church greater control over education. In the election of 1830, the liberal opposition to Charles X won a decisive victory. He responded with the July Ordinances that dissolved the newly elected Chamber of Deputies; the ordinances also deprived rich bourgeois of the vote and severely curbed the press. The conventional, students and workers rebelled viewing themselves as heirs of the Jacobins; they hoped to establish a republic although the wealthy bourgeois who took control of the revolution feared Republican