 The three then went into exile, which probably destabilized the principle of legitimacy and paved the way to the Duke of Orléans, whom the House elected King of the French, instead of the title of lieutenant-general of the kingdom.If abdications show a change in mentality towards more interested relativism on constitutive laws of the monarchy or political expediency in order to save the monarchical principle (note the paradox that there is to "relativize" a "principle" in particular to preserve it), they are nevertheless considered legally invalid by the Legitimist thought dating the "reign" of the son of Charles X from 1836 to his death, and the "reign" of the Count of Chambord from 1844 at the death of his uncle, whom they regard as de jure "Louis XIX".One wonders then about reading the history of France between realism and rewriting.