Snuffbox made of boiled cardboard, with a lid featuring a caricature of King Charles X based on a lithograph entitled Le Grand Casse-noisette du 25 Juillet ou La Ganache impuissante (The Great Nutcracker of July 25 or The Powerless Ganache), which was popular in 1830 at a time when the monarch was becoming increasingly unpopular.

He is depicted with donkey ears and breaking a nut inscribed with La Charte with his horse teeth. He is about to crush the 221 deputies and issue an decree against freedom of the press.

Condition: minor damage

D: 7,7 cm

Judging the Chamber too hostile to the government and the opposition too ardent, Charles X and his Prime Minister Jules Polignac published several decrees on July 25, 1830, aimed at restoring order and ultra-royalist power. The first decree suspended freedom of the press, the second dissolved the Chamber...

Rebellion broke out the very next day and continued for several days. Popular riots, but also riots by the bourgeoisie, intellectuals, and the press characterized the Three Glorious Days, driving Charles X from power. Although for a time people dreamed of a republic, they ultimately settled for a change of king with the establishment of the July Monarchy and Louis-Philippe (Duke of Orleans, branch of the Bourbons).

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