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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 ...
Louis died on 16 September 1824 surrounded by the extended royal family and some government officials. He was succeeded by his youngest brother, the Count of Artois, as Charles X . [ 137 ] As a historical footnote, the young science of disinfection had advanced in the early 1820s to the point where it was recognized that chlorides of lime could ...
Below are the family trees of all French monarchs, from Childeric I to Napoleon III. ... Louis XVIII 1755–1824 King of France r. 1815–1824: Marie Joséphine
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 ...
After Louis XVIII's death, the throne went to yet another brother of Louis XVI, Charles, Count of Artois, who ascended the throne as Charles X of France. His son, Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, married Madame Royale, daughter of his uncle, Louis XVI of France, in a move to unite both lines of Royal Family. However, the duke and Madame ...
On 6 April 1814, the Senate of the French Empire summoned Louis Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence—already styling himself "Louis XVIII"—to become head of a restored, but constitutional, French monarchy. Louis' younger brother, Charles, Count of Artois, came to Paris on 12 April and was appointed Lieutenant-General of the realm; Louis ...
The Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg consists of the present Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria, plus their five children: Prince Guillaume (married to Princess Stephanie, a Belgian Countess ...
The standard of the French royal family under the Ancien Régime and the restoration period Main article: Bourbon Restoration in France With the abdication of Napoleon on 11 April 1814 the Bourbon dynasty was restored to the Kingdom of France in the person of Louis XVIII , brother of Louis XVI.