Bourbon restoration charles X and Louis XVIII
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- Bourbon Restoration under Charles X
- Louis XVIII
- 4th son of Dauphin Louis son of Louis XV
- Manifesto in1813 after Napoleon's defeats promising to recognise some results of revolution in a restored Bourbon regime
- Allied armies entered Paris March 1814, Talleyrand able to negotiate restoration
- 6th April 1814 Napoleon abdicated, senate recalled Bourbons to throne
- Favoured moderate centralist position in an attempt to ensure national reconciliation between ultra royalists and liberals
- By the time Louis had arrived, it was less a question of taking action than repairing harm done - Baron Pasquir
- Compte de provence
- Absent from France for 23 years - limited knowledge of revolutionary changes
- 24th April 1814 landed on French soil
- Selected by allies based on fear of Republicanism, only legitimate heir, felt he would divide France the least
- Jubilations on arrival, 3rd May 1814 from war-weary parisians hailing an end to 20 years of continuous warfare and 1.4 million dead. Many felt Louis was promise of peace
- Weighed over 17 stone, fat, elderly and unpopular, gout, realist, pragmatic, highly educated, formidable, too cold to be an attractive king
- Little sympathy for new france -Declaration of verona 1795, ringing endorsement of the ancient regime apart from certain unspecified abuses.
- By 1805 he had accepted France's post-revolutionary administrative and judicial structure in event of restoration
- Recognised that Estates General couldn't be revived, instead there would be permanent single-chamber legislature
- Strong belief in his own divine right to rule, accepted no responsibility to parliament
- Charles X
- 12th April 1814 entered Paris as Lieutenant General of kingdom until Louis arrived, de facto ruler for fortnight - 16th April - 2nd May 1814
- Damaged long-term future of restoration as he set up network of agents and collaborators all over France devoted to his own brand of ultra-royalism
- Virtually parallel government
- Acted as shadow government with deeply decisive effects by 1820
- so called 'green cabinet' was headed by Terrier de Montciel, who controlled entire royalist police system that reported back to comte d'Artois
- Damaged long-term future of restoration as he set up network of agents and collaborators all over France devoted to his own brand of ultra-royalism
- Strong belief in system of absolute monarchy
- Supported ultra royalist views
- Did recognise that it was no longer feasible to resurrect a society based on 3 legally defined orders
- After 1814 strove to revive as much of hierarchical system as possible by strengthening the nobility and the clergy
- Although ultra-royalist policies gained the upper hand before Louis XVIII's death, Charles X's accession accelerated their pace
- Charming, generous, impulsive, inflexibly conservative
- Promiscuous youth led him to abandon former ways and adopt religion
- 12th April 1814 entered Paris as Lieutenant General of kingdom until Louis arrived, de facto ruler for fortnight - 16th April - 2nd May 1814
- Louis XVIII
- Birth of two sons of Louis XVI put a stop to royal ambitions - had remained in Paris in 1789 to exploit royal situation
- Louis XVIII
- 4th son of Dauphin Louis son of Louis XV
- Manifesto in1813 after Napoleon's defeats promising to recognise some results of revolution in a restored Bourbon regime
- Allied armies entered Paris March 1814, Talleyrand able to negotiate restoration
- 6th April 1814 Napoleon abdicated, senate recalled Bourbons to throne
- Favoured moderate centralist position in an attempt to ensure national reconciliation between ultra royalists and liberals
- By the time Louis had arrived, it was less a question of taking action than repairing harm done - Baron Pasquir
- Compte de provence
- Absent from France for 23 years - limited knowledge of revolutionary changes
- 24th April 1814 landed on French soil
- Selected by allies based on fear of Republicanism, only legitimate heir, felt he would divide France the least
- Jubilations on arrival, 3rd May 1814 from war-weary parisians hailing an end to 20 years of continuous warfare and 1.4 million dead. Many felt Louis was promise of peace
- Weighed over 17 stone, fat, elderly and unpopular, gout, realist, pragmatic, highly educated, formidable, too cold to be an attractive king
- Little sympathy for new france -Declaration of verona 1795, ringing endorsement of the ancient regime apart from certain unspecified abuses.
- By 1805 he had accepted France's post-revolutionary administrative and judicial structure in event of restoration
- Recognised that Estates General couldn't be revived, instead there would be permanent single-chamber legislature
- Strong belief in his own divine right to rule, accepted no responsibility to parliament
- Louis XVIII
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