Louis XVIII of France

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Louis XVIII of France was the Bourbon king who restored the monarchy after Napoleon’s fall and ruled during the turbulent period of the post-Revolutionary Restoration.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bourbon monarch
King of France
King of the French
human
monarch
birthName Louis Stanislas Xavier de France
burialPlace Basilica of Saint-Denis
France
Saint-Denis
Île-de-France
causeOfDeath natural causes
coronation 1814-05-03
countryOfBirth France
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1755-11-17
dateOfDeath 1824-09-16
dynastyRestored Bourbon dynasty
father Louis, Dauphin of France (son of Louis XV)
givenName Louis
house House of Bourbon
issued Charter of 1814
languageSpoken French
marriagePlace Versailles
marriageStart 1771-04-14
monarchOf France
Navarre
mother Maria Josepha of Saxony
nobleFamily Bourbon dynasty
notableEvent exile during the French Revolution
flight from France in 1791–1792
restoration of the French monarchy after Napoleon’s abdication in 1814
return to Paris after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Palace of Versailles
Versailles
placeOfDeath Kingdom of France
Paris
Tuileries Palace
politicalEra Bourbon Restoration
predecessor Napoleon I
regnalName Louis XVIII
reignEnd 1824-09-16
reignInterruptedBy Hundred Days
reignStart 1814-04-06
religion Roman Catholicism
secondReignEnd 1824-09-16
secondReignStart 1815-07-08
sibling Charles X of France
Louis XVI of France
spouse Marie Joséphine of Savoy
successor Charles X of France
title Count of Provence
King of France and Navarre
King of the French


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