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    Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (French: le Désiré), was King of France from 1814 to 1824...
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    the comte de Provence, proclaimed himself King Louis XVIII. Later that year, the 20-year-old Louis Antoine led an unsuccessful royalist uprising in...
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    The Madeleine cemetery was closed in 1794. In 1815 Louis XVIII had the remains of his brother Louis XVI and of his sister-in-law Marie Antoinette transferred...
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    Louis XVIII made him commander of the Army of the North. In the days after Napoléon entered Paris (March 20), Louis XVIII fled to Belgium and Louis Philippe...
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    August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother of reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile. After...
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    proclaimed Louis XVIII. Louis-Charles de France was born at the Palace of Versailles, the second son and third child of his parents, Louis XVI and Marie...
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    until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed King Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted...
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    The Louis XVIII column is a tall column in the Courgain area of Calais to commemorate the visit of king Louis XVIII to the city. After the fall of the...
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    Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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    later rule France: Louis XVI (reign in 1774–1792), Louis XVIII (1814–1815, again in 1815–1824) and Charles X (1824–1830). Louis's birth secured the throne...
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    Contrary to what one might expect, the 20-franc gold coin under Louis XVIII was not a Louis d'or but a Napoléon gold coin. Because of the new monetary law...
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    eldest son of Louis, Dauphin of France and Maria Josepha of Saxony, and was thus the oldest brother to the future kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles...
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    Dauphin Louis would go on to marry Maria Josephina of Saxony in 1747, who gave birth to the next three Kings of France: Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles...
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    himself in his room for two days. Napoleon understood that the French king Louis XVIII was unpopular. Realizing that his wife and son would not be joining him...
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    of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days). This period saw the War of the...
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    Louis, Dauphin of France (1 November 1661 – 14 April 1711), commonly known as le Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV...
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    in Utrecht, Paroletti in Turin and Mazzio in Rome. Some coins of King Louis XVIII were minted in London in 1815. The English were supportive of the return...
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    Provence - brother of Louis XVI, who was guillotined in 1793 - was crowned as Louis XVIII, nicknamed "The Desired". Louis XVIII tried to conciliate the...
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    Louis Joseph Xavier François (22 October 1781 – 4 June 1789) was Dauphin of France as the second child and first son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette...
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    members took the rule of France, awaiting the return of the Bourbon King Louis XVIII, who was in Le Cateau-Cambrésis. The Commission held power for two weeks...
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    court at Versailles. She was the grandmother of the French kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X. Born as a member of the House of Leszczyński, Maria...
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    Antoinette in relation to Maria Theresa, the wife of Louis XIV, citing the memoirs of Louis XVIII, who was only fourteen when Rousseau's Confessions were...
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    crowned on 11 June 1775. Napoleon I was crowned on 2 December 1804. Louis XVIII decided not to have a coronation. Charles X was crowned on 29 May 1825...
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    Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Louis)
    Restoration, when Louis XVIII ascended the throne of France, twenty-one years after the death of his brother Louis XVI. Louis XVIII attempted to steer...
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    original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained...
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  • deposed the Bourbon dynasty for the more liberal king Louis Philippe. Following the return of Louis XVIII to power in 1815, people suspected of having ties...
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    Zoé Talon du Cayla (category Louis XVIII)
    styled comtesse du Cayla, was an intimate friend and confidante of Louis XVIII of France, and was his maîtresse-en-titre. She was born at Le Boullay-Thierry...
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    Louis XIII (French pronunciation: [lwi tʁɛz]; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death...
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    Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" was the popular name for a French army mobilized in 1823 by the Bourbon King of France, Louis XVIII, to help the Spanish Bourbon...
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    Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. An 1821 gift of King Louis XVIII of France, it depicts St. Louis burying his plague-stricken troops before the siege of...
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