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Louis XVIII of France
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My government was liable to commit errors: perhaps it did commit them. There are times when the purest intentions are insufficient to direct, or sometimes they even mislead.
— Cambray Proclamation (28 June 1815)
Louis XVIII of France
King of France and Navarre from 1815 to 1824 (1755-1824)
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Lived 1755–1824, aged 69France
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He spent 23 years in exile watching his brother die on the guillotine and his nephew die in prison, then returned twice to rule a France that had burned down everything he represented — and somehow held the throne for a decade under a constitution that gutted the power he believed was his by divine right.
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Louis Stanislas Xavier was born in 1755 as Count of Provence, brother to Louis XVI. When the Revolution exploded in 1791, he fled France; the National Convention abolished the monarchy in 1792 and guillotined his brother. After his young nephew Louis XVII died in prison in June 1795, he claimed the throne as Louis XVIII from exile. He drifted through Prussia, Great Britain, and Russia for over two decades. In 1814, the Sixth Coalition defeated Napoleon and placed him on the throne, but Napoleon escaped Elba and Louis XVIII fled again during the Hundred Days. A Seventh Coalition defeated Napole…
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Louis XVIII of France
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Impious and factious men, after having seduced you by false declamations, and by deceitful promises, hurried you into irreligion and revolt.
— p. 3
Louis XVIII of France
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We are Frenchmen—a title, which the crimes of a few individuals can no more degrade than the enormities of the Duke of Orleans can pollute the blood of Henry the Fourth.
— p. 3
Louis XVIII of France
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Misfortune has removed the veil which was placed before your eyes; the harsh lessons of experience have taught you to regret the advantages which you have lost.
— p. 4
Louis XVIII of France
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It is not enough to groan beneath the yoke of your oppressors; you must be assisted in shaking it off.
— p. 4
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