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Who forced Louis Antoine to sign the instrument of abdication?

  • Napoleon, his cousin

  • Louis Philippe I

  • Charles X, his father

  • Nobody

Answer

Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, was forced to abdicate in 1830. He was the eldest son of King Charles X of France, and he had been named as the heir to the throne. However, in July of 1830, a revolution broke out in France. The revolutionaries demanded that Charles X abdicate, and he eventually agreed.
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