Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past
As early as 1795, immediately after the death of the young Louis XVII in his Parisian prison, the comte de Provence, brother of the late Louis XVI who had been executed in 1793, was hoping the course of history would prove him right. He opted to call himself Louis XVIII, a title which was made offic...
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| description | As early as 1795, immediately after the death of the young Louis XVII in his Parisian prison, the comte de Provence, brother of the late Louis XVI who had been executed in 1793, was hoping the course of history would prove him right. He opted to call himself Louis XVIII, a title which was made official nineteen years later when he became king. Proclaimed in the Déclaration de Vérone on 8 June 1795, in the midst of the Revolution, such an act implied that the Revolution was not happening, had never happened, and would never happen again. Our paper explores this new and ambivalent kind of resilience by examining three decisive moments during the reigns of Louis XVI’s two brothers, Louis XVIII (1814-1824) and Charles X (1824-1830): the First Restoration and the Hundred Days, with their curious institutional novelties and changes of hands; the early Second Restoration, when the game between the old and the new world seemed on and then over; and the first years of Charles X’s reign, when the tensions returned with a vengeance, probably climaxing in 1825 with the Compensation Act, known as “le milliard des émigrés.” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6cb37b9425514253a76a836aa3c9352d2022-12-22T02:59:59ZdeuWinchester University PressRoyal Studies Journal2057-67302022-12-019211613010.21039/rsj.321329Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary PastFlavien Bertran de Balanda0Gérard Gengembre1Sorbonne Université / EPHEUniversité de Caen (Emeritus)As early as 1795, immediately after the death of the young Louis XVII in his Parisian prison, the comte de Provence, brother of the late Louis XVI who had been executed in 1793, was hoping the course of history would prove him right. He opted to call himself Louis XVIII, a title which was made official nineteen years later when he became king. Proclaimed in the Déclaration de Vérone on 8 June 1795, in the midst of the Revolution, such an act implied that the Revolution was not happening, had never happened, and would never happen again. Our paper explores this new and ambivalent kind of resilience by examining three decisive moments during the reigns of Louis XVI’s two brothers, Louis XVIII (1814-1824) and Charles X (1824-1830): the First Restoration and the Hundred Days, with their curious institutional novelties and changes of hands; the early Second Restoration, when the game between the old and the new world seemed on and then over; and the first years of Charles X’s reign, when the tensions returned with a vengeance, probably climaxing in 1825 with the Compensation Act, known as “le milliard des émigrés.”https://rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/321french restorationpolitical legitimacysociology of politicstheories of legitimacyultra-royalisthundred days1814 charter1830 revolution |
| spellingShingle | Flavien Bertran de Balanda Gérard Gengembre Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past Royal Studies Journal french restoration political legitimacy sociology of politics theories of legitimacy ultra-royalist hundred days 1814 charter 1830 revolution |
| title | Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past |
| title_full | Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past |
| title_fullStr | Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past |
| title_full_unstemmed | Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past |
| title_short | Restoration and Resilience: The Last Bourbons and the Revolutionary Past |
| title_sort | restoration and resilience the last bourbons and the revolutionary past |
| topic | french restoration political legitimacy sociology of politics theories of legitimacy ultra-royalist hundred days 1814 charter 1830 revolution |
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