King Charles X just wants to spend some time at his vacation house playing cards, hunting, and hanging out with his family. But it's late July 1830, and people keep interrupting him to talk about some alleged revolution in Paris.

My apologies for the number of different ways I managed to pronounce "Neuilly" in this episode.

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