France had against the Regency of Algiers of serious objections. A forwarding was solved. Prepared well, led well, it leads to the catch of Algiers (July 5, 1830). Our soldiers thus threw the first bases of this African empire intended to double the power and the resources of the metropolis. The conquest of Algeria was for Marseilles a blow of fortune. It was already the gate of the East: it became like the capital of our establishments of overseas, and consequently opens for it one era of indefinite prosperity.
Misled by blind men advisers, Charles X thought that this glorious event would enable him to restore Ancien Régime. The ordinances of July 1830, which dissolved the House of Commons, amended the electoral law and abolished the freedom of the press, caused a revolution. After three days of battle, in the streets, the Parisian ones punished its faults, by a final exile, a sovereign and a family which had not learned anything, nor nothing forgotten.

The Tricolour reappeared, and the duke of Orleans, the son of Philippe-Equality, Louis-Philippe ßt, became king of the French (August 1, 1830). In Marseilles the ordinances had been accomodated with joy by the exaltés royalists, with abatement by the constitutional ones, with

indifference by the mass of the people, but nobody moved. Moreover it was only on July 31 which one learned rising from Paris. At August 4, when the royal authorities had yielded the place, the Tardieu assistant settled with the Town hall, there convened the Council of notable, organized the national guard, and took care of the peace and maintenance of law and order. At August 12 only the new king of the French was proclaimed in the medium of the acclamations. It was a new mode which started.