the comte de Provence, proclaimed himself King Louis XVIII. Later that year, the 20-year-old Louis Antoine led an unsuccessful royalist uprising in... 14 KB (1,344 words) - 15:28, 27 March 2024 |
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... 63 KB (6,488 words) - 19:43, 1 May 2024 |
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... 2 KB (190 words) - 03:33, 28 November 2023 |
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... 10 KB (726 words) - 00:55, 20 April 2024 |
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... 66 KB (7,527 words) - 13:27, 15 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,266 words) - 08:18, 28 April 2024 |
Kingdom of France (section Louis XIV, the Sun King) Provence - brother of Louis XVI, who was guillotined in 1793 - was crowned as Louis XVIII, nicknamed "The Desired". Louis XVIII tried to conciliate the... 57 KB (6,324 words) - 08:49, 29 April 2024 |
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... 8 KB (691 words) - 15:50, 14 March 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,573 words) - 15:12, 1 May 2024 |
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... 88 KB (4,918 words) - 02:55, 18 March 2024 |
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... 39 KB (4,401 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,344 words) - 10:54, 20 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (720 words) - 10:30, 23 May 2023 |
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... 41 KB (4,650 words) - 00:12, 19 April 2024 |
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... 50 KB (5,340 words) - 02:54, 27 April 2024 |