Then
Louis XVIII, who till then had been the laughingstock both of the French and the Allies, began to reign.
An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, now rose and proposed the health of King
Louis XVIII. It was the Marquis de Saint-Meran.
Risking all to win all, he bought up
Louis XVIII.'s most pressing debts, and was the first to settle nearly three million of them at twenty per cent--for he was lucky enough to be backed by Gobseck in 1814 and 1815.
So imprisoned and tortured was this gentle little heart, when in the month of March, Anno Domini 1815, Napoleon landed at Cannes, and
Louis XVIII fled, and all Europe was in alarm, and the funds fell, and old John Sedley was ruined.
Mademoiselle Cormon and the Abbe de Sponde belonged to that "little Church," sublime in its orthodoxy, which was to the court of Rome what the Ultras were to be to
Louis XVIII. The abbe, more especially, refused to recognize a Church which had compromised with the constitutionals.
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Louis XVIII took the throne of France after Napoleon's defeat and exile by the allies.
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Louis XVIII took the throne of France after Napoleon's defeat and exile.
There is some debate over how Venus made it to France, but in the Louvre narrative the Marquis de Riviere, a French ambassador to the Ottoman empire at the time of her discovery, purchased the statue and offered it to
Louis XVIII, who swiftly donated it to the Louvre.
And even Roosevelt had borrowed the phrase from Napoleon's history, with '100 days' used to describe the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King
Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815, actually a period of 110 days.
Jelgava Palace was the official residence of
Louis XVIII before he became King of France.
It was the seat of William Peveral, the son of William the Conqueror; of John Earl of Mortaigne, who succeeded his brother Richard the Lion Heart as King of England in 1199; and of
Louis XVIII, the exiled King of France.
Its sumptuous rooms have marble fireplaces and rococo ceilings and the exiled King of France
Louis XVIII even took up residence here with his court.