On the fall of the great emperor, Louis XVIII presented this statue to the British government, by whom it was afterwards given to the Duke of Wellington.

** Louis XVIII ( 1814 – 1815, 1815 – 1824 )

The new Bourbon King, Louis XVIII, however, granted amnesty to David and even offered him the position of court painter.

He became mayor of the village after Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814.

Charles X had succeeded Louis XVIII in 1824, but in 1827 his party suffered a major electoral setback and by 1830 the opposition liberal party became the majority.

In 1782 Antoine Beauvilliers, pastry chef to the future Louis XVIII, opened one of the most popular restaurants of the time – the Grande Taverne de Londres – in the arcades of the Palais-Royal.

Those who wished to restore the monarchy and the Ancien Régime by putting Louis XVIII on the throne, and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.

The Congress was a personal triumph for Francis, where he hosted the assorted dignitaries in comfort, though Francis undermined his allies Tsar Alexander and Frederick William III of Prussia by negotiating a secret treaty with the restored French king Louis XVIII.

* Louis XVIII of France was exiled in Ghent during the Hundred Days in 1815

Those who wished to restore Louis XVIII and the Ancien Régime and those who would have renewed the Reign of Terror were insignificant in number.

The monarchy was subsequently restored and Louis XVIII became king.

Louis XVIII was the younger brother of Louis XVI, and reigned from 1814 to 1824.

The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20, 000 pieces.

In 1815 Louis XVIII finally concluded agreements with Italy for the keeping of pieces such as Veronese's Wedding at Cana which was exchanged for a large Le Brun or the repurchase of the Albani collection.

The Venus de Milo was added to the Louvre's collection during the reign of Louis XVIII of France | Louis XVIII.

During the Restoration ( 1814 – 30 ), Louis XVIII and Charles X between them added 135 pieces at a cost of 720, 000 francs and created the department of Egyptian antiquities curated by Champollion, increased by more than 7, 000 works with the acquisition of antiquities in the Edmé-Antoine Durand, the Egyptian collection of Henry Salt or the second collection former by Bernardino Drovetti.

* 1755 – King Louis XVIII of France ( d. 1824 )

* 1816 – Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable (" Unobtainable Chamber ").

It stars Rod Steiger ( portraying Napoleon Bonaparte ) and Christopher Plummer ( portraying the Duke of Wellington ) with a cameo by Orson Welles ( Louis XVIII of France ).

He declares he will bring Napoleon back to Paris " in an iron cage ", which Louis XVIII says to himself is an exaggerated expression and an overreaction, typical for a militarist.

* Louis XVII ( 1793 – 1795 )

* 1795 – Louis XVII of France ( b. 1785 )

* July 8 – Louis XVIII returns to Paris, and is ' restored ' as King of France ( he had declared himself king on 8 June 1795, at the death of his nephew, 10-year-old Louis XVII, and had lived in Westphalia, Verona, Russia, and England ).

* March 27 – Louis XVII of France ( d. 1795 )

* Louis XVII ( 1793 – 1795 )

* Louis XVIII ( 1795 – 1814 )

It was proclaimed on January 19, 1795, and ended on June 5, 1806, with the accession of Louis Bonaparte to the throne of the Kingdom of Holland.

* Louis-Charles ( the future titular King Louis XVII of France ) ( 27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795 )

Louis XVII ( Versailles 27 March 1785 – Paris 8 June 1795 ), from birth to 1789 known as Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy ; then from 1789 to 1791 as Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France ; and from 1791 to 1792 as Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France, was the second son of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette.

When the young Louis XVII, Louis XVI's son, died in prison in June 1795, Louis XVIII succeeded his nephew as titular King, although the monarchy had been disestablished.

Young Louis XVII's reign did not last long as he died in June 1795.

Louis XVIII negotiated Marie-Thérèse ’ s release from her Paris prison in 1795.

Louis XVIII had been vying for the custody of his niece Marie-Thérèse since her release from the Temple Tower in December 1795.

Charles lived in Edinburgh and London with his mistress Louise de Polastron His older brother, dubbed Louis XVIII after the death of his nephew in June 1795, relocated to Verona and then to Jelgava Palace, Mitau, where Charles's son, Louis Antoine, married Louis XVI's only surviving child, Marie Thérèse on 10 June 1799.

* Louis XVII ( 1785 – 1795 ) ( Only his heart.

Occupying Holland in January 1795, the French continental army learned that the mighty Dutch navy had been frozen into the ice around Texel Island, so Commandant Louis Joseph Lahure and 128 men simply rode up to it and demanded surrender.

Charles Eugene left no legitimate heirs, and was succeeded by his next brother, Louis Eugene ( d. 1795 ), who was childless, and then by another, Frederick Eugene ( d. 1797 ).

* Louis de la Bourdonnais ( 1795 – 1840 ), chess master

* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.

* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

* 1717 – Louis François, Prince of Conti ( d. 1776 )

* 1764 – Louis Baraguey d ' Hilliers, French general ( d. 1816 )

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

* 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver ( d. 1979 )

In the Battle of Abensberg on 19 – 20 April 1809, Napoleon gained a significant victory over the Austrians under Archduke Louis of Austria and General Johann von Hiller.

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

* 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer

* 778 – Louis the Pious ( d. 840 )

* 1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1712 )

* 1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".

* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )