Bourbon Restoration may refer to: . France under the House of Bourbon: . Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815); Spain under the Spanish Bourbons: . Absolutist Restoration (1814, after the Napoleonic occupation, until 1868); Restoration Spain (1874, …

Charles X (born Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile.After the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Charles (as heir-presumptive) became the …

Bourbon Restoration (disambiguation), the return to monarchs in the Bourbon Dynasty in France and Spain; Bourbon Democrat, from 1876 to 1904 a conservative member of the US Democratic Party; Other uses. USS Bourbon, a frigate; Bourbon virus, a tick-borne virus discovered in the summer of 2014; Bourbon (horse) (foaled in 1774), a British ...

Central banking before the Bank of France. The Kingdom of France's first experiment with a central bank was the Banque Générale (Banque Générale Privée or "General Private Bank"), set up by John Law at the behest of the Duke of Orléans after the death of Louis XIV.Law received the bank's 20-year charter in May 1716 and its stock consisted of 1,200 shares valued at 5,000 …

Marshal of France (French: Maréchal de France, plural Maréchaux de France) is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements. The title has been awarded since 1185, though briefly abolished (1793–1804) and for a period dormant (1870–1916). It was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France …

This instance of reaction was surpassed by a movement that developed in France when, after the second fall of Napoleon, the Bourbon Restoration, or reinstatement of the Bourbon dynasty, ensued. This time it was to be a constitutional monarchy , with an elected lower house of parliament, the Chamber of Deputies.

The suppression of the Jesuits was the removal of all members of the Society of Jesus from most of the countries of Western Europe and their colonies beginning in 1759, and the abolishment of the order by the Holy See in 1773. The Jesuits were serially expelled from the Portuguese Empire (1759), France (1764), the Two Sicilies, Malta, Parma, the Spanish Empire (1767) and Austria …

Education in France is organized in a highly centralized manner, with many subdivisions. It is divided into the three stages of primary education (enseignement primaire), secondary education (enseignement secondaire), and higher education (enseignement supérieur).The main age that a child starts school in France is age 2. Two year olds do not start primary school, they start …

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Well-Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) on 15 February 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of …

The Restoration (Spanish: Restauración), or Bourbon Restoration (Spanish: Restauración borbónica), is the name given to the period that began on 29 December 1874—after a coup d'état by General Arsenio Martínez Campos ended the First Spanish Republic and restored the monarchy under Alfonso XII—and ended on 14 April 1931 with the proclamation of the Second …