Address of the 221

It expressed the defiance of the chambre's liberal majority of 221 deputies to the government headed by Jules, prince de Polignac, and helped lead to the July Revolution.

On 8 August 1829, Charles X appointed Jules de Polignac, his confidant and the leader of the Ultra-royalists, as Foreign Minister.

The advent of the Polignac ministry preceded the founding of the Le National newspaper, which released its first issue on 3 January 1830.

Immediately, Méchin, a Liberal MP very close to Louis Philippe I, ran to the Palais-Royal to bring the news to his patron, evidently already versed in everything.

[3] Two days later, on 18 March towards the end of the morning, Charles X received at the Tuileries the delegation of the Chamber of Deputies, led by President Royer-Collard, who read the address to the monarch as follows: "Sire, it is with deep gratitude that your loyal subjects and the deputies of the departments, together around your throne, heard from your prestigious mouth the flattering testimony to the confidence that you granted them.