THIS DUDE was King of France for....20 minutes:
When Charles reluctantly signed the document of abdication on 2 August
1830, Louis Antoine and his wife became king and queen of France, though
the brevity of his effective reign makes it often unaccounted for by
historians. It is said that the now-King Louis XIX spent the next twenty
minutes listening to the entreaties of his wife not to sign, while the
former Charles X sat weeping. After that he also abdicated (in favour of
his nephew, the Duke of Bordeaux),
making history as the shortest-ever reigning king. For the final time
he left for exile, where he was known as the "Count of Marnes". He never
returned to France.
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