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15 July – the Café de Paris opens at corner of the boulevard des Italiens and rue Taitbout. 1823 5 August – First stone laid for the church of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. 1824 25 August – First stone laid for the church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. October – Opening of À la Belle Jardinière clothing store, ancestor of the modern department ...
Other events of 1824 History of France • Timeline • Years: Events from the year 1824 in France. Incumbents. Monarch – Louis XVIII (until 16 September), ...
This is a timeline of French ... and enemy nations sign the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years' War, ... France until his death on 16 September 1824. 1821:
1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1824th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 824th year of the 2nd millennium, the 24th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1824, the ...
On 16 September 1824, after a lingering illness of several months, the 68-year-old Louis XVIII died. As he was childless, his younger brother, Charles, aged 66, inherited the throne of France. He was known to have more reactionary politics. On 27 September Charles X made his state entry into Paris to popular acclaim.
New national elections for the legislature were held in 1816 and 1817, under strict rules; only men at least years old who paid direct taxes of at least 300 francs a year could vote. 9,677 Parisians were eligible to vote, and they voted largely for liberal candidates in opposition to the government, which was dominated by royalist and ultra ...
Paris in the 18th century was the second-largest city in Europe, after London, with a population of about 600,000 people. The century saw the construction of Place Vendôme, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the church of Les Invalides, and the Panthéon, and the founding of the Louvre Museum.
Louis XVIII was succeeded by his brother Charles X in 1824, but new the government became increasingly unpopular with both the upper classes and the general population of Paris. The play Hernani (1830) by the twenty-eight-year-old Victor Hugo , caused disturbances and fights in the theater audience because of its calls for freedom of expression .