The 1830 charter in question.

Autograph manuscript with some corrections in an unidentified hand, entitled "The Gordian Knot." The author, a moderate monarchist, analyzes the Charter of 1830, discusses recent unrest, and attempts to reconcile the divergent interests of the aristocracy and the people. He responds to the various articles of the Charter, highlighting those that cannot be practically applied. According to him, the main scourge stems from the multitude of courtiers and incompetent ministers who occupy the principal levers of the kingdom's administration. "Let us therefore sweep away these masses of supple and insinuating reptiles, these chameleons of every color, these proteus of every face who feed only on disorder, and let us place near the throne a pure and resonant body that will echo the truth and make it resound beneath all the vaults of the Palace." Then the monarch will understand that the troubles, the civil dissensions, arise from bad administration, disorder in the finances, vexations, monopolies exercised by those who should repress them; finally, from abuses of all kinds [...]. He reviews the different institutions: justice, taxes, nobility.