Admiral Dumont d’Urville Taking Charles X and the Royal Family to England

This engraving by Auguste Trichon depicts Admiral Jules Dumont d’Urville escorting Charles X and the royal family to England after the July Revolution of 1830. The scene shows the deposed king and his entourage on a quay at the moment of departure into exile. It evokes the fall of the Bourbon Restoration, the collapse of Bourbon power, and the transition to the July Monarchy. Published in Décembre and Alonnier’s illustrated popular dictionary, the image presents a major political episode in nineteenth-century France.