Thither Dumouriez himself had gone.  Of the flight of young Louis, Carlyle says:  “Brave young Egalite reaches Switzerland and the Genlis Cottage; with a strong crabstick in his hand, a strong heart in his body:  his Princedom is now reduced to that Egalite the father sat playing whist, in his Palais Egalite, at Paris, on the sixth day of this same month of April, when a catchpole entered.  Citoyen Egalite is wanted at the Convention Committee!” What the committee wanted with Equality Philip and what they did with him has been stated above.

Consider then that the Napoleonic era has at last set in blood.  Consider that the Restoration, with the reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X., has gone by.  Consider that the “Three Days of July,” 1830, have witnessed a bloodless revolution in Paris, in which the House of Bourbon was finally overthrown and blown away.  On the second of August, Charles X. gave over the hopeless struggle and abdicated in favor of his son.  But the Chamber of Deputies and the people of France had now wearied of Bourbonism in all of its forms, and the nation was determined to have a king of its own choosing.

The Chamber set about the work of selecting a new ruler for France.  At this juncture, Thiers and Mignet again asserted their strength and influence by nominating for the throne Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, representative of what is known as the Younger Branch of the Bourbon dynasty.  The prince himself was not loath to present himself at the crisis, and to offer his services to the nation.  In so doing, he was favored greatly by his character and antecedents.  At the first, the Chamber voted to place him at the head of the kingdom with the title of Lieutenant-General.  The prince accepted his election, met the Chamber of Deputies and members of the Provisional Government at the Hotel de Ville, and there solemnly pledged himself to the most liberal principles of administration.  His accession to power in his military relations was hailed with great delight by the Parisians, who waved the tri-color flag before him as he came, and shouted to their heart’s content.

At this stage of the revolution the representatives of the overthrown House and of the Old Royalty sought assiduously to obtain from Louis Philippe a recognition of the young Count de Chambord, under the title of Henry V. But the Duke of Orleans was too wily a politician to be caught in such a snare.  He at first suppressed that part of the letter of abdication signed by Charles and Angouleme in which reference was made to the succession of the Duke of Berry’s son; but a knowledge of that clause was presently disseminated in the city, and the tumult broke out anew.

Then it was that a great mob, rolling out of Paris in the direction of the Hotel Rambouillet, gave the signal of flight to Charles and those who had adhered to the toppling fortunes of his house.  The Chamber of Deputies proceeded quickly to undo the despotic acts of the late king, and then elected Louis Philippe king, not of France, but of the French.  The new sovereign received 219 out of 252 votes in the Deputies.  His elevation to power was one of the most striking examples of personal vicissitudes which has ever been afforded by the princes and rulers of modern times.