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 )

* Louis XVIII ( 1795 – 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.

It was expected that Louis would marry his cousin, the daughter of King Philip V of Spain, but this marriage was cancelled by the duke in 1725 so that Louis could marry Maria Leszczynska, the daughter of Stanislas, former king of Poland.

Before reaching Versailles, she also met her future brothers-in-law, Louis Stanislas Xavier, comte de Provence ; and Charles Philippe, comte d ' Artois, who came to play important roles during and after her life.

Portrait of the young Count of ProvenceLouis Stanislas Xavier, titled comte de Provence at birth, was born on 17 November 1755 in the Palace of Versailles, the son of Louis, Dauphin of France, and of his wife, Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony.

Louis Stanislas was christened Louis Stanislas Xavier six months after his birth, in accordance with Bourbon family tradition, being nameless before his baptism.

The name of Louis was bestowed because it was typical of a Prince of France ; Stanislas after his great-grandfather King Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland ; and Xavier for Saint Francis Xavier, whom his mother's family held as one of their patron saints.

At the time of his birth, Louis Stanislas was fourth in line to the throne of France, behind his father, the Dauphin ; and his two elder brothers, Louis Joseph Xavier, Duke of Burgundy and Louis Auguste, Duke of Berry.

The two deaths elevated Louis Stanislas to second in the line of succession, while Louis Auguste, acquired the title of Dauphin.

Louis Stanislas found comfort in his governess, Madame de Marsan, Governess of the Children of France, ( Gouvernante des Enfants de France ), as he was her favourite among his siblings.

Louis Stanislas was taken away from his governess when he turned seven, age at which the education of boys of royal blood and of the nobility was turned over to men.

Louis Stanislas was an intelligent boy, excelling in classics.

His education was of the same quality and consistency as that of his older brother, Louis Auguste, despite the fact that Louis Auguste was heir and Louis Stanislas was not.

Louis Stanislas ' education was quite religious in nature, several of his teachers being ecclesiastics.

La Vauguyon drilled into young Louis Stanislas and his brothers the way he thought princes should " know how to withdraw themselves, to like to work ," and " to know how to reason correctly ".

On 14 May 1771, Louis Stanislas married Princess Maria Giuseppina of Savoy.

Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d ' Abancour ( 4 July 1758 – 9 September 1792 ) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI.

On 22 October 1781, the queen gave birth to Louis Joseph Xavier François, who bore the title Dauphin of France, as was customary for the eldest son of the King of France.

Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria ( 30 January 1894 – 28 August 1943 ), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver ( Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier ), son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I.

# Maria Giuseppina of Savoy ( 2 September 1753 – 13 November 1810 ) married Louis Xavier, Count of Provence in 1771, no issue.

It also has several members in the Midwest, including two member schools in Ohio, Dayton and Xavier ( located in Dayton and Cincinnati, respectively ); Saint Louis ( in St. Louis, Missouri ); and Butler ( located in Indianapolis ).

* Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume of Luxembourg, born on August 3, 1986.

* Xavier ( 1753 – 54 ), second son of Louis, Dauphin of France.

Born at the Château de Kerscamp, Hennebont, Morbihan, France, as Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior de Polignac, he was the fourth son and youngest child of Count Maxence Melchior Edouard Marie Louis de Polignac ( 1857-1936 ) and his Mexican wife whom he wed in Paris in 1881, Susana Mariana Estefania Francisca de Paula del Corazon de la Torre y Mier ( 1858-1913 ).

However, the church often is used for weddings ( the parish recommends booking dates at least a year in advance ), behind only St. Francis Xavier College Church at St. Louis University in number of Catholic marriages in the archdiocese.

The title was restored in 1775 for Louis Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence, the oldest surviving brother of the reigning Louis XVI and the future Louis XVIII.

Among notable guests were King Augustus II the Strong ( 1726 to 1727 and again in 1729 ), King Augustus III and his wife and sons Prince Francis Xavier and Prince Charles ( 1744 and 1752 ), Prince Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ( twice in 1759 ), Bishop Ignacy Krasicki ( 1760 ), King Stanisław August Poniatowski ( occasionally ), Emperor Joseph II Habsburg ( 1780 ), Grand Duke Paul, future Tsar Paul I of Russia, with his wife ( 1782 ), King Louis XVIII of France ( 1798 ), French, English, Turkish and Russian envoys and Italian actress.