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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 ( 18141815, 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.

Louis and spent
Following his election as pope, John spent a year in Bologna and then joined forces with Louis II of Anjou to march against Ladislaus.
One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns.
Young spent two years with St. Louis, which is where he found his favorite catcher, Lou Criger.
They currently play home games in the 20, 066 capacity Joe Louis Arena after having spent over 40 years playing in Olympia Stadium.
Lamping also spent 13 years as the president of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Following his release from Egyptian captivity, Louis spent four years in the Crusader kingdoms of Acre, Caesarea, and Jaffa.
Lewis and Clark, for whom the expedition became known, recruited the 45 men to accompany them, and spent a winter training them near St. Louis for the effort.
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ( 1748 – 1831 ) spent ten years studying North American birds and wrote the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l ' Amerique septentrionale ( 1807-1808 ?).
Chris Wickham states Louis spent five years campaigning to reduce then occupy Bari, " and then only to a Byzantine / Slav naval blockade "; " Louis took the credit " for the success, adding " at least in Frankish eyes ", then concludes by noting that by remaining in southern Italy long after this success, he " achieved the near-impossible: an alliance against him of the Beneventans, Salernitans, Neapolitans and Spoletans ; later sources include Sawadān as well.
The party continued east via the Sweetwater River, North Platte River ( where they spent the winter of 1812 – 1813 ) and Platte River to the Missouri River, finally arriving in St. Louis in the spring of 1813.
Louis spent most of his childhood learning about nature at his grandparent ’ s farm.
Louis Kahn, whose original name was Itze-Leib ( Leiser-Itze ) Schmuilowsky ( Schmalowski ), was born into a poor Jewish family in Pärnu and spent the rest of his early childhood in Kuressaare on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, then part of the Russian Empire.
Louis Bonaparte's early career was spent in the Army, and he served with Napoleon in Egypt.
As soon as he could walk, Louis spent time playing in his father's workshop.
The relics were stored in a large and elaborate silver chest, the Grand-Chasse, on which Louis spent a further 100, 000 livres.
The Tides spent their first year as an " independent " team with no direct major-league affiliation, but became a St. Louis Cardinals affiliate the following season.
Louis Philippe fled France as a young man and spent 21 years in exile.
It was named after its discoverer William S. Sly ( 1932 -), an American Biochemist, in 1969 who has spent nearly his entire academic career at Saint Louis University.
As Secretary of State, Dulles spent considerable time building up NATO and forming other alliances ( the " Pactomania ") as part of his strategy of controlling Soviet expansion by threatening massive retaliation in event of a war, as well as building up friendships, including that of Louis Jefferson, who would later write a good-humored biography on Dulles.
The historical site includes the home where the world-famous aviator spent summers next to the Mississippi River and also a visitor's center that tells the Lindbergh family story and displays a full size replica of The Spirit of St. Louis cockpit.
* Robert Louis Stevenson, author, spent a year in the town for a TB cure.
He had spent enormous sums in building a magnificent château on his estate of Vaux-le-Vicomte, which in extent, magnificence and splendour of decoration was a forerunner of Versailles, and where he brought together three artists that the King would later take up for Versailles: the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter Charles Le Brun, and the garden designer André le Nôtre.

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