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Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (French: le Désiré), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815.
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Louis XVIII (17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824) was King of France from April 1814 to March 1815 and again from July 1815 to September 1824. He became king with the Bourbon Restoration of the monarchy after the overthrow of Napoleon I.
Louis XVIII — né le 17 novembre 1755 à Versailles sous le nom de Louis Stanislas Xavier de France et par ailleurs comte de Provence (1755-1795) — est roi de France et de Navarre du 6 avril 1814 au 20 mars 1815 puis du 8 juillet 1815 à sa mort, le 16 septembre 1824, à Paris.
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Louis-Charles de France was born at the Palace of Versailles, the second son and third child of his parents, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He was named after his father and his mother's favourite sister Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples and Sicily, who was known as Charlotte in the family, Charles being the masculine version of her name. His younge...
As rumors quickly spread that the body buried was not that of Louis-Charles and that he had been spirited away alive by sympathizers, the legend of the "Lost Dauphin" was born. When the Bourbon monarchy was restoredin 1814, some one hundred claimants came forward. Would-be royal heirs continued to appear across Europe for decades afterward.
Novel
1. 1884 – Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ISBN 9780486280615(a character falsely claiming to be him) 2. 1913 – Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Eldorado, ISBN 9780755111121 3. 1937 – Rafael Sabatini, The Lost King, ISBN 9780755115440 4. 1951 – Dennis Wheatley, The Man Who Killed The King, ISBN 0090031903 5. 1953 – Willa Gibbs, Seed of Mischief, ISBN 9780110500645 6. 1955 – Carley Dawson, Dragon Run 7. 2000 – Deborah Cadbury, The Lost King of France: A true story of revolution, revenge, and...
Cinema
1. 1937 – Le roi sans couronne played by Scotty Beckett 2. 1938 – La Marseillaise played by Marie-Pierre Sordet-Dantès 3. 1938 – Marie Antoinetteplayed by Scotty Beckett 4. 1945 – Pamela played by Serge Emrich 5. 1957 – Dangerous Exile played by Richard O'Sullivan 6. 1982 – The Scarlet Pimpernelplayed by Richard Charles 7. 1989 – La Révolution françaiseplayed by Sean Flynn 8. 1991 – Killer Tomatoes Eat France played by Steve Lundquist. 9. 1995 – Jefferson in Paris played by Damien Groelle 10....
Music
1. 2014 – Symphony of the Vampire by Kamijo 2. 2018 – Sang by Kamijo
Alexei Nikolaevich, heir to the Russian Empire; imprisoned and killed by the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil WarArthur I, Duke of Brittany, boy claimant to the English throne; alleged to have been murdered by his uncle King JohnEdward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, the Princes in the Tower who vanished towards the end of the Wars of the Roses; alleged to have been murdered by their uncle Richard IIICadbury, Deborah. The Lost King of France: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII. London: Fourth Estate, 2002 (ISBN 1-84115-588-8, hardcover), 2003 (ISBN 1-84115-589-6, paperback); New...'Live Free or Die' (historical thriller novel) by Dominic Lagan ISBN 978-0-9561518-0-3, Editions Gigouzac 2009 paperbackAlcide Beauchesne "Louis 17. Sa vie, martyr et agonie" 1852. Plon. Paris.Primary sources 1. (in French) Duchess of Angoulême's Memoirs on the Captivity in the Temple(from the autograph manuscript) 2. Duchess of Angoulême's Memoirs on the Captivity in the Temple(1823 English translation of a slightly redacted French edition) Other material 1. (in French) Philippe Delorme's website (Philippe Delorme's website : one page i...
Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765) (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his father died ...
The French Charter of 1814 was a constitutional text granted by King Louis XVIII of France shortly after the Bourbon Restoration, in form of royal charter. The Congress of Vienna demanded that Louis bring in a constitution of some form before he was restored.
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Louis XVIII , was King of France from April 1814 to March 1815 and again from July 1815 to September 1824.
