Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1830, Faransa ta yi juyin juya halin Yuli don fitar da sarakunan Bourbon masu juyin juya hali, da kuma sanya Orléanist Louis-Philippe a matsayin sarki. Akasin haka, sarautar Sarauniya Victoria ta soma cikin salama a shekara ta 1837. Manyan ƙasashen Turai - Rasha, Austria, Burtaniya, da kuma ƙarancin Prussia - sun ƙuduri aniyar kiyaye Faransa a cikin bincike, don haka Faransa gabaɗaya ta bi tsarin siyasa mai hankali. Louis-Phillipe ya yi kawance da Burtaniya, kasar da Faransa ta raba irin wannan tsarin gwamnati, da kuma sakataren harkokin wajenta mai suna Lord Palmerston. A shekarar farko ta Louis-Philippe a mulki, ya ki amincewa da Belgium a lokacin juyin juya hali
, maimakon bin layin Burtaniya na tallafawa 'yanci. Duk da cewa manyan ministocin Faransa Adolphe Thiers a 1839-1840 cewa Faransa za ta kare Muhammad Ali mai karfin iko na Masar (mai wakilcin Daular Ottoman), ba a sami wani karin karfi ba, kuma a 1840, da yawa ga jin kunyar Faransa, Ali ya tilasta wa hannu Yarjejeniyar London ta ikon. Dangantaka ta sake yin sanyi a karkashin gwamnatocin François Guizot da Robert Peel. Sun sake yin haushi a cikin 1846 duk da haka lokacin da, tare da Palmerston a matsayin Sakataren Harkokin Waje, gwamnatin Faransa ta amince da hanzari don Isabella II na Spain da 'yar'uwarta su auri membobin daular Bourbon da Orléanist, bi da bi. Palmerston ya yi fatan shirya aure, kuma "The Affair of the Spanish Marriages" ya kasance a gaba ɗaya ba shi da kyau daga masana tarihi na Birtaniya ("Ta hanyar shari'ar da ba ta dace ba ta tarihi an la'anta shi a duniya"), kodayake an dauki ra'ayi mai tausayi a cikin 'yan shekarun nan.