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Louis XVIII admitted the Count of Artois and his nephews the Dukes of Angoulême and of Berry to the Royal Council in May 1814, upon its establishment. The council was informally headed by Prince Talleyrand. [95] Louis XVIII took a large interest in the goings-on of the Congress of Vienna (set up to redraw the map of Europe after Napoleon's ...
Louis XVI 1754–1793 King of France r. 1774–1792: Louis XVIII 1755–1824 King of France r. 1814–1824: Charles X 1757–1836 King of France r. 1824–1830: Louis Philippe II 1747–1793 Duke of Orléans: Carlo Buonaparte 1746–1785: Louis XVII 1785–1795 King of France (claimant) r. 1793–1795: Louis Philippe I 1773–1850 King of the ...
The family tree of Frankish and French monarchs (509–1870) France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Franks (r. 507–511), as the first king of ...
Louis c. 1264 – c. 1276: Philip IV 1268–1314 King of France r. 1285–1314: Joan I 1273–1305 Queen of Navarre: Louis I 1279–1341 Duke of Bourbon Bourbons: Clementia of Hungary 1293–1328: Louis X 1289–1316 King of France r. 1314–1316: Margaret of Burgundy 1290–1315: Philip V c. 1293 –1322 King of France r. 1316–1322: Joan II ...
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 XVII," 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.
Louis XVIII Receiving the Duke of Angoulême on His Return from the Spanish Campaign is an 1823 history painting by the French artist Antoine Jean-Baptiste Thomas. [1] [2] It features a group portrait of the leading members of the French Royal Family as Louis XVIII welcomes his nephew Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême back from his successful military campaign in Spain in command of the ...
Articles relating to Louis XVIII (1755–1824, reigned 1814-1815, 1815-1824) and his reign. Subcategories.
On 8 June 1795, the only surviving son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, referred to by the legitimists as 'Louis XVII of France', died while imprisoned in the Temple, and on 16 June, the exiled French royalists proclaimed the count of Provence king of France as Louis XVIII. Thus, Marie Joséphine became regarded as titular queen consort of ...