It also borrowed from a literary source, this time Scott, and depicts a scene from the Middle Ages, that of the murder of Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège amidst an orgy sponsored by his captor, William de la Marck.

Philip also managed in 1456 to ensure his illegitimate son, David, was elected Bishop of Utrecht, and his nephew Louis of Bourbon Prince-Bishop of Liège.

* Louis de Bourbon ( 1438 – 30 August 1482, murdered ), Bishop of Liège

Louis incites the citizens of Liège to revolt against Charles, and, under the command of Louis's ally, William de la Marck, they seize and murder Charles's brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège ( a real historical event which occurred in 1482 ).

Later he was prominent in the courts of Charles IV, Philippe VI and Jean II, serving as a secretary and advisor ; perhaps aided by these Bourbon connections, he also held several canonries, including Clermont, Beauvais and Paris, also serving for a time in the antipapal retinue at Avignon starting with Clement VI.

Within a month Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and Admiral Gaspard de Coligny had raised an army of 1, 800.

The county of Vendôme was raised to the rank of a duchy and a peerage of France for Charles of Bourbon ( 1515 ); his son Antoine de Bourbon, king of Navarre, was the father of Henry IV, who gave the duchy of Vendôme in 1598 to his illegitimate son César de Bourbon ( 1594 – 1665 ).

In April 1790, Scott raised a contingent of volunteers from Bourbon and Fayette counties to join Josiah Harmar in a raid against the Western Confederacy along the Scioto River in what would become the U. S. state of Ohio.

At the end of the 17th century, two important sovereign princes, Anne-Marie Louise of Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier known as " la Grande Mademoiselle ", and her successor Louis-Auguste of Bourbon, duke of Maine, raised two monuments which are still notable in the landscape-the Montpensier hospital and the Palace of the Dombes Parliament.

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

The Spanish transition to democracy or new Bourbon restoration was the era when Spain moved from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to a liberal democratic state.

The new dynasty began a series of reforms throughout the empire ( the Bourbon Reforms ), designed to make administration more efficient and profitable, and to facilitate the defense of the colonies.

The new National Constituent Assembly was heavily composed of royalist symphathizers of both the Legitimist ( Bourbon ) wing and the Orleanist ( Citizen King Louis Phiippe ) wing.

The institution adopted Condorcet's design for state education system, and he drafted a proposed Bourbon Constitution for the new France.

As of today, there are no operating distilleries within the current boundaries of Bourbon County — due to new counties being formed from Bourbon County over time.

Napoleon conquered Parma in 1800 and compensated the Bourbon duke with Etruria, a new kingdom he created from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

) He met María del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete some three decades earlier on business travel in Spain, when she was married to her new husband ( the unbalanced Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros ).

The new Bourbon regime was, however, a constitutional monarchy, unlike the Ancien Régime, which was absolute, so it had some limits on its abilities to govern.

Bourbon became part of the new state of Kentucky when it was created in 1792.

With the ascension of the House of Bourbon to the Spanish throne, the historic Aragonese viceroyalties were replaced by new Captaincies General.

There were only two New World viceroyalties until the 18th century, when the new Bourbon Dynasty established two additional viceroyalties to promote economic growth and new settlements on South America.

The Bourbon Reforms introduced the new office of the intendant, which was appointed directly by the crown and had broad fiscal and administrative powers in political and military issues.

His first posting was to Brest but in February 1764 he was sent to Martinique, in the West Indies, where he was put in charge of building the new Fort Bourbon and this task occupied him until June 1772.

The extraordinary group of works by Raphael acquired by Philip IV initiated a new taste for that artist, who replaced Titian in Bourbon eyes and became the favourite of the new dynasty.

In 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported that chefs from " hipster hangouts and retro landmarks " are using " macerated farmers market strawberries, Valrhona chocolate and Madagascar Bourbon vanilla " to make new milkshake flavors.

To ensure continuity of supply of used oak casks some Scottish distilling groups own oak forests in USA and rent the new barrels to US Bourbon producers for first fill use.

In November 1785, upon his father's death, Philippe, the new Duke of Orléans, became the head of the House of Orléans, one of the wealthiest families of France, and Premier Prince du Sang, addressed as Monsieur, the most important personage of the kingdom after the king's immediate family, and, as such, next in line to the throne should the main Bourbon line die out.

On Napoleon's abdication, he rallied to the new government, and was made a Peer of France by the Bourbon Restoration King Louis XVIII.

The French led the way in building new permanent triumphal arches when the imperial ambitions of the Bourbon kings and Napoleon Bonaparte led to a spate of arch-building.

These self-organized and managed separate meetings are today defined as the epoch event beginning the historical epoch ( era ) of French Revolution during which, after several further weeks of civil unrest, the body assumed a new status as a revolutionary legislature, the National Constituent Assembly ( July 9, 1789 ), a unitary body composed of the former representatives of the three estates stepping up to govern along with an emergency committee in the power vacuum existing after the Bourbon monarchy fled Paris.

His utter defeat meant the legal and political termination of the autonomous parliaments in the Crown of Aragon, as the Nueva Planta decrees were passed and King Philip V of Spain of the new House of Bourbon sealed the transformation of Spain from a de facto unified realm into a de jure centralized state.

* 1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa ( Spain ) in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Throughout the late 1720s Eugene's influence and skilful diplomacy managed to secure the Emperor powerful allies in his dynastic struggles with the Bourbon powers ; but physically and mentally fragile in his later years Eugene enjoyed less success as commander-in-chief of the army during his final conflict, the War of the Polish Succession.

Louis II de Bourbon joined the Spanish army this time, but suffered a severe defeat at Dunkirk ( 1658 ) by Henry de la Tour d ' Auvergne.

Barcelona, which had supported the Archduke's claim to the throne of Spain and the allies in 1705, finally surrendered to the Bourbon army on 11 September 1714 following a long siege, ending the presence of the allies in Spain.

* April 25 – The Allied army is defeated by the Bourbon army at Almanza, Spain, in the War of the Spanish Succession.

* June 19 – Battle of Landriano: A French army in Italy under Marshal Francis de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol is decisively defeated.

* August 11 – Battle of Seneffe: The French army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeats the Dutch-Spanish-Austrian army under William III of Orange.

The Bourbon army of about 25, 000 was composed of Spanish and French troops in equal proportion, as well as an Irish regiment.

Before the battle, Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne united his Franco-German army with an all-French army led by Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé ( then known as the Duc d ' Enghien, courtesy title of the heir to the Condé honours, to which he would not succeed until the following year ).

The Battle of Lens ( 20 August 1648 ) was a French victory under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé against the Spanish army under Archduke Leopold in the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ).

The Battle of Seneffe was fought on 11 August 1674 and resulted in a draw. The armies were under the command of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé ( France ) and the Dutch-German-Spanish army under William III of Orange.

France defended this area with an army under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé.

Chateaubriand returned to France in 1792 and subsequently joined the army of Royalist émigrés in Coblenz under the leadership of Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé.

The duke then issued a proclamation called the Brunswick Manifesto, written by the French king's cousin, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, the leader of an émigré corps within the allied army, which declared the Allies ' intent to restore the king to his full powers and to treat any person or town who opposed them as rebels to be condemned to death by martial law.

During the French Wars of Religion in 1567, he joined the army of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, but a fall from his horse prevented him from taking an active part in the campaign.

He adhered to the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, and though he rejoined Napoleon in the Hundred Days and commanded a minor army, he submitted to the Bourbons again after the Battle of Waterloo.

In 1821, he entered the French army of the restored Bourbon monarchy ( against his own Bonapartist tendencies ), attending the lavish coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom in London that year ( staying until 1822 ) and serving as a Garde du Corps of Louis XVIII.

* White cockade – Bourbon monarchy and French army.

File: Armées des émigrés. jpg | Royalist army used the white Bourbon ensign, during the French Revolutionary Wars ( here, the battle of Quiberon, 1795 ).

Early in the story, Julien Sorel realistically observes that under the Bourbon restoration it is impossible for a man of his plebian social class to distinguish himself in the army ( as he might have done under Napoleon ), hence only a Church career offers social advancement and glory.