Charles X, King of France

In her earliest years in Paris she was the mistress first of the comte d'Artois (who much later reigned as Charles X ) and then of the duc de Chartres (later duc d'Orléans , later...

Her mother, Euphemia Robinson , a talented amateur pianist, became a Roman Catholic not long after the birth of Dorothea's sister Emily. While growing up in Edinburgh she had contracted...

From her youth FS was accustomed to mixing with distinguished people. Sir Walter Scott , a friend of both of her parents, found her youthful company a relief when he was old and ill. In...

ECK continued through the later part of her life to cultivate relationships with royalty and the aristocracy, of her own nation and others. Her friendships with Lord St Vincent and with Lady Aylesbury (or Ailesbury)

The meeting of Aurore Dudevant (later GS ) with Sandeau coincided with the end of the Three Glorious Days when Charles X abdicated, leaving the throne for his nephew Louis Philippe of Orléans . In...

Having spent three years in Paris, from 1821 to 1824, and begun to regard that, rather than England, as her home, ECK returned there on August 15, 1830, but she did not stay long...

Sydney Morgan published France in 1829-30, her second book about that country, just after the French king Charles X had been toppled by revolution.

She had intended to produce a historical romance about this woman, who married a son of Charles X , the last king of France, but she found the actual story so exciting and so colourful...

She was back there again in August the following year, after the revolution of July and the abdication of Charles X on 2 August. She then travelled to Cornwall (her late husband's place of origin)...