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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 ...
Louis IV 920–954 King of the Franks r. 936–954: Emma of Italy b. c. 948: Lothair 941–986 King of the Franks r. 954–986: Matilda 943–992: Conrad I 925–993 King of Burgundy: Charles 945–953: Henry 953–953: Charles 953–993 Duke of Lower Lorraine: Louis 948–954 Capetians: Louis V c. 967 –987 King of the Franks r. 986–987 ...
Portrait of Louis XVIII is an 1814 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard depicting Louis XVIII of France in his coronation robes. [1]Louis XVIII was the younger brother of Louis XVI, who had been guillotined during the French Revolution; he spent many years in exile and returned to France from England following the 1814 downfall of Napoleon and the First Restoration.
Beauvilliers (or Beauvillier) was the name of a very ancient French family belonging to the country around Chartres, members of which are found filling court offices from the 15th century onward. For Charles de Beauvillier, gentleman of the chamber to the king, governor and bailli of Blois, the estate of Saint-Aignan was created a countship in ...
Each family's formal name ends in the Latin suffix -aceae and is derived from the name of a genus that is or once was part of the family. [ 3 ] The table below contains seed-bearing families from Plants of the World by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase , with two updated families [ a ] from Plants of the ...
Articles relating to Louis XVIII (1755–1824, reigned 1814-1815, 1815-1824) and his reign. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Following the abolition of the monarchy of France by the French National Convention, Louis XVI and his family were held in confinement. Louis XVI was found guilty by the Convention of treason against the state, and was executed on 21 January 1793. The Dauphin Louis–Charles was thereafter proclaimed "Louis XVII of France" by French royalists ...