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The manifesto, known as the "Declaration of Verona", was Louis XVIII's attempt to introduce the French people to his politics. The Declaration of Verona beckoned France back into the arms of the monarchy, "which for fourteen centuries was the glory of France". [18] Louis XVIII negotiated the release of Marie-Thérèse from her Paris prison in 1795.
Allegory of the Return of the Bourbons on 24 April 1814 : Louis XVIII Lifting France from Its Ruins by Louis-Philippe Crépin. King Louis XVIII made a triumphal return to Paris on 3 May 1814, accompanied by members of the provisional Council of State, commissaires of the ministerial departments, Marshals of France, and generals.
After years of expansion of his French Empire by successive military victories, a coalition of European powers defeated him in the War of the Sixth Coalition, ended the First Empire in 1814, and restored the monarchy to the brothers of Louis XVI. The First Bourbon Restoration lasted from about 6 April 1814.
4.1 House of Bonaparte, First French Empire (1804–1814) 4.2 House of Bourbon, ... Louis XVIII "the Desired" 8 July 1815 – 16 September 1824 (9 years, 2 months and ...
The Senate named Louis-Stanislas-Xavier de Bourbon “King of the French, according to the wishes of the nation”, under the name of Louis XVIII, and Napoleon was exiled. [ 1 ] As the Tsar had promised a settlement outside France worthy of Emperor Napoleon, he proposed Corsica to Caulaincourt, who refused, as it was an integral part of the ...
Louis XVIII failed to reassure the entire French population, leading some to hope for a return of the Empire.. That Napoleon should have sought to return to France is hardly extraordinary, since at the beginning of 1815 there was still a mass of Bonapartist opinion in the country, known to the authorities and the king himself from the moment he came to power. [1]
While the Allied powers were divided over the person to be placed on the throne of France, a subtle game was established between the Bourbons in exile, the French institutions, and the foreign powers, before the abdication of Napoleon on 6 April opened the way to Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVI, who returned to Paris at the end of the month ...
The monarchy would be restored under his younger brother, the Count of Provence, who took the name Louis XVIII in consideration of the dynastic seniority of his nephew, Louis, from 1793 to 1795 (the child never actually reigned). Louis XVIII died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the Count of Artois, as Charles X in 1824.