 Fifteen years after Napoleon I, Charles X's road to exile also started at Rambouillet.On 2 August 1830, he signed his abdication here in favour of his nine-year-old grandson, the Duke of Bordeaux.It took twenty minutes to talk his son, the Duke of Angoulême, into, reluctantly, countersigning the document, thus abandoning his rights to the throne of France in favor of his nephew.