Louis XVIII of France and Navarre - Paris, France
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Louis XVIII spent much of his reign in exile. This bust of him is located in the Musee du Armee at Les Invalides.
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Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/05/2011
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Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre (1795-1824)was the titular monarch in exile during the rule of Napoleon I. He took actual power during the Bourbon restoration 4/11/1814-3/20/1815 and again 7/8/1815-9/16/1824.
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" Upon his return, the King displayed himself to his subjects by creating a procession through the city. He took up residence in the Tuileries Palace the same day. His niece, the duchesse d'Angoulême, fainted at the sight of the Tuileries.[85]
Napoleon's senate called Louis XVIII to the throne on the condition that he would accept the new constitution, which entailed recognition of the Republic and the Empire, a bicameral parliament elected every year, and the tri-colour flag of the aforementioned regimes.[86] Louis XVIII opposed the senate's constitution, and stated that he was "disbanding the current senate in all the crimes of Bonaparte, and appealing to the French people". The senatorial constitution was burned in a theatre in royalist Bordeaux, and the Municipal Council of Lyon voted for a speech that defamed the senate.[87]
The armies occupying Paris demanded that Louis XVIII implement a constitution.[88] The Charter of 1814 that Louis created entailed all that Saint-Ouen wished for and more: Freedom of Religion, a legislature composed of the Chamber of Deputies[89] and the Chamber of Peers,[90] the press would enjoy a degree of freedom, the biens nationaux,[91] would remain in the hands of their current owners.[92] The constitution had 76 articles. Taxation was to be voted on by the chambers."
The sculptor of this 1818 marble piece is Charles Dupaty (1771-1825).