Bourbon Restoration in France

Kingdom of France
Royaume de France (French)
1815–1830
Motto: Montjoie Saint Denis!
Anthem: Le Retour des Princes français à Paris "The Return of the French Princes to Paris"
The Kingdom of France in 1818
The Kingdom of France in 1818
CapitalParis
Common languagesFrench
Religion
Demonym(s)French
GovernmentUnitary parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy
King 
• 1815–1824
Louis XVIII
• 1824–1830
Charles X
President of the Council of Ministers 
• 1815
Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord
• 1829–1830
Jules de Polignac
LegislatureParliament
Chamber of Peers
Chamber of Deputies
History 
• Restoration
1815
• Charter of 1815 adopted
1815
6 April 1823
26 July 1830
CurrencyFrench franc
Preceded by
Succeeded by
First French Empire
July Monarchy
Alternative royal standard of France (1814–1830)

The Second Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the fall of Napoleon in 1815. The Second Bourbon Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed King Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable to reverse most of the changes made by the French Revolution. Exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars, the nation experienced a period of internal and external peace, stable economic prosperity and the preliminaries of industrialization.[3]

  1. ^ Tombs 1996, p. 333.
  2. ^ Pinoteau, Hervé (1998). Le chaos français et ses signes: étude sur la symbolique de l'Etat français depuis la Révolution de 1789 (in French). Presses Sainte-Radegonde. p. 217. ISBN 978-2-9085-7117-2. OL 456931M.
  3. ^ Sauvigny 1966.


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