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| | Louis XVIII of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Louis XVIII died on September 16, 1824, and was interred in the Saint Denis Basilica. | | | Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France and Navarre from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824, with a brief break in 1815 due to Napoleon's return in the Hundred Days. | | | King Louis' chief ministers were at first moderate, including Talleyrand, the Duc de Richelieu, and Élie Decazes, and Louis himself followed a cautious, moderate policy, hoping that moderation would ensure the continuation of the dynasty. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVIII_of_France
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| | Louis XVI of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Louis' mother was Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, second wife of the Dauphin, and the daughter of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. | | | Louis was nowhere near as reactionary as his right-wing brothers, the comte d'Artois and the comte de Provence, and he sent repeated messages publicly and privately calling on them to halt their attempts to launch counter-coups (often through his secretly nominated regent, former minister de Brienne). | | | Stripped of all titles and honorifics by the egalitarian, Republican government, Citizen Louis Capet was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd on January 21, 1793. |
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| | LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE |
| | (A. (1754-1793), king of France, was the son of Louis, dauphin of France, the son of Louis XV., and of Marie Joseph of Saxony, and was born at Versailles on the 23rd of August 1754, being baptized as Louis Augustus. | | | A devoted and sincere Roman Catholic, he refused at first to sanction a constitution for the church in France without the pope's approval, and after he had been compelled to allow the constitution to become law he resolved to oppose the Revolution definitely by intrigues. | | | Having lost his elder son in 1789 Louis left two children, Louis Charles, usually known as Louis XVII., and Marie Th6rese Charlotte (1778-1851), who married her cousin, Louis, duke of Angoule'me, son of Charles X., in 1799. |
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http://73.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LO/LOUIS_XVI_OF_FRANCE.htm
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| | Louis XVI, king of France |
| | Louis was forced to accept the constitution of 1791, which limited his power, but preserved the royal veto and his power to appoint ministers. | | | Louis ordered the estates to meet and vote separately, but he was forced (June 27, 1789) to yield and allow the estates to sit together and vote by head. | | | Found guilty by a unanimous vote, he was sentenced to death by a vote of 361 to 288, with 72 calling for a delay. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0830398.html
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| | The Rose of Versailles - French History |
| | Second son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, he became dauphin (heir to the throne) on the death of his older brother, Louis-Joseph, in June 1789, shortly after the outbreak of the Revolution. | | | This plan may have worked with the King's help, but Louis XVI was weak and vacillating, the prisoner of his aristocratic advisers. | | | His undoing of the judicial reforms of his grandfather cost him presige, and his reign was marked by the increasing strength of the aristocrats, who opposed most economic and administrative reforms. |
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| | Timeline of King Louis XVI |
| | He was the grandson of Louis XV and married Marie Antoinette. | | | 1791 September 14 - Louis XVI solemnly swore his allegiance to the French Constitution. | | | 1754 August 23 - Louis XVI (d.1793), King of France during the French Revolution who met his fate at the guillotine, was born. |
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http://www.geocities.com/frenchmonarch/louisxvi/timeline.html
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| | Louis XVI |
| | Immediately after he was crowned, Louis remitted some of the most oppressive taxes and instituted financial and judicial reforms. | | | He was declared guilty and was sentenced to death. | | | As long as the king followed his minister's advice, the state of the kingdom was improved. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/va/frenchrev/LouisXVI.html
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| | Louisville.cc - King Louis XVI of France |
| | The statue of King Louis ("Loo-ee") the 16th of France that stands outside the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown Louisville is 175 years old in 2004. | | | The town was officially chartered with the name Louisville ("Loo-ee-vill") by the Virginia Legislature in 1780, and became part of Kentucky upon the commonwealth's statehood in 1797. | | | One form of thanks given to Louis that same year was the naming of a Virginia settlement in his honor. |
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http://www.louisville.cc/people/louis-xvi.html
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| | BIO: Agnes of Rome / Louis XVI of France |
| | Louis was born in 1754, third son of the dauphin (the Crown Prince,son of Louis XV), and thus in his early years not expected to inherit the throne. | | | It was not an elected body, but an assembly of lawyers. | | | They point out that if the vote was not to be by heads, the expansion of the Third Estate to 600 delegates was silly and pointless. |
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http://www.hillsdale.edu/personal/westblade/rel/biography/01/21b.html
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| | Louis XVI, King of France |
| | New constitutional elections in August 1792 produced a radical Assembly dominated by the Jacobins who on September 21 declared a Republic and had Louis XVI arrested. | | | In January, 1793 Louis XVI was executed and Great Britain declared war. | | | The British government had warned that if Louis were executed, it would mean war. |
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http://www.laughtergenealogy.com/bin/histprof/misc/louisxvi.html
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| | Movers: 19th Century - By Miles Hodges |
| | Louis began to maneuver in anticipation of his possible return to France by declaring that he would support the positive features of the Revolution. | | | Realizing the seriousness of his own personal position, Louis Philippe decided to flee--to Switzerland where he took on an assumed name (as much to avoid the wrath of the exiled royalists, or emigrés, as much as to avoid detection by the Republican authorities) and became a professor at a college there. | | | When Louis Napoleon fell from power in 1870 Thiers was elected president of the National Assembly and thus found himself de facto head of France. |
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http://www.newgenevacenter.org/movers/19th-cen2.htm
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| | He was found guilty and sentenced to death, and on January 21, 1793 he went bravely to the guillotine, jeered and ridiculed by the violent mobs. | | | For several months after their father's death, Louis Charles and his sister, Marie Therese Charlotte, remained in prison with Marie Antoinette. | | | But her attempts bore no fruit, because she was opposed downright to reform. |
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| | Royal Family of Europe - pafg06 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File |
| | Elisabeth Charlotte Princess Of ORLEANS [Parents] was born on 13 Sep 1676 in St Cloud,, France. | | | He married Elisabeth Charlotte Princess Of ORLEANS on 22 Oct 1698 in Fontainebleau,, France. | | | Franz I Emperor Of The HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE [Parents] was born on 8 Dec 1708 in, Chcateau De Luneville, Meurthe-Et-Moselle, France. |
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| | Louis XVI |
| | When Louis had first ascended the throne, his chief financial officer was a man named Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781), who was a brilliant and creative administrator. | | | Like most noblewomen, she was raised in an isolated atmosphere; her life at the French court was, like Louis's, utterly isolated from the non-aristrocratic world. | | | The Revolution took her and Louis by surprise; while she was vilified and hated by the Revolutionaries and the Third Estate, she had no part in any of the abuses of the government or the nobility which precipitated the Revolution. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/REV/LOUISXVI.HTM
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| | Marie Antoinette Queen of France |
| | She married the crown prince of France in 1770. | | | The succession went to the closest living relative of Louis XVI who became Louis XVIII (Louis XVI son, Louis XVII died in captivity after the revolution). | | | Four years later she became queen when her husband was crowned King Louis XVI (House of Bourbon). |
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| | The death of Louis XVI of France Samizdata.net |
| | The death of Louis XVI of France | | | Posted by Matt McIntosh at January 21, 2006 04:55 PM | | | Hard not to think France couldn't have reformed better if more gradually. |
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| | Louis XVI - King of France |
| | With the abuses and excesses of over 200 years, Louis presided over the age of Bourbon rule that led to one of Europe's major events - the French Revolution. | | | While honest, Louis XVI was weak-willed and bullied by a corrupt and inept aristocracy. |
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http://galleryhistoricalfigures.com/figures-pages/French/louis16/louis16.html
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| | The Execution of Louis XVI, 1793 |
| | During the American Revolution Louis granted financial and military aid that was instrumental in the colonies gaining independence from Great Britain. | | | Marie Antoinette married Louis in 1770 when she was 14. | | | On January 20, 1793, the National Convention condemned Louis XVI to death, his execution scheduled for the next day. |
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| | Royal Genealogies Part 30 |
| | After Louis granted financial aid to the American colonies revolting against Great Britain in the New World, his finance minister proposed drastic taxes on the nobility (who had been free from taxation). | | | Louis swore obedience to the new Franch constitution in 1791, but continued secretly to work against the revolution and to plot intrigues with France's enemies. | | | The anger of the French people against taxes and the lavish spending of the court resulted in 1788 in the recall of the finance minister who cold not prevent the bankruptcy of the government. |
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| | The Splendors of Versailles--Teachers' Guide Supplement |
| | It was on June 21, 1791, that Louis and his queen were arrested at Varennes as they tried to escape the revolution. | | | When Louis XVI of France was a child, an astrologer warned him to be always on his guard on the twenty-first day of every month. | | | An ornate clock belonging to King Louis XIV of France stopped running at the precise moment of his death, 7:45 A.M. on September 1, 1715, and it has never run since. |
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| | Worldroots.com |
| | (the first Duc was a Napoleontic general, the second one was the President of France) | | | Pedigree Table of King Louis XIV of France | | | (daughter of King Henri II of France and Catherine de Médici) |
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| | Alibris: John Paul Jones |
| | John Paul Jones' Memoir of the American Revolution presented to King Louis XVI of France | | | The long-awaited sequel to Zeppelin expert Dave Lewis' acclaimed first edition of "Led Zeppelin: A Celebration, this new book on the legendary band includes exclusive interviews, analysis of concerts both during and after the Zeppelin era, and detailed accounts of important turning points in Led Zeppelin's career. |
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| | Find in a Library: [Louis XVI, King of France, full-length portrait, standing, facing left |
| | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. | | | Subjects: Louis -- XVI, -- King of France, -- 1754-1793. | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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| | CNN.com - Louis XVII to have royal burial - Dec. 7, 2003 |
| | More than 200 years after the death of Louis XVII, son of France's Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, the French culture ministry has given permission for his heart to be buried in the royal crypt. | | | Because of lingering uncertainty Louis' heart, stone-hard and held in an urn, was later placed in the chapel near the royal crypt of the Saint Denis Basilica, near Paris, the burial place of his parents and other members of the royal family. | | | The ministry approved the symbolic burial after geneticists who had compared the DNA of different members of the royal family decided in 2000 that it was indeed Louis who had died in prison in 1795. |
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| | EXN.ca History |
| | It was one of the great dramas of history: King Louis the XVI of France and his wife Marie Antoinette, beheaded in 1793 at the height of the French Revolution, their son and daughter, imprisoned in a fortified Parisian monastery for life. | | | The royal couple's son, Louis the XVII, died of tuberculosis in that prison when he was only 10, his body covered in scabies and tumours. | | | At the time, rumours abounded that the real Louis had been smuggled to safety, and a peasant boy substituted in his place. |
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| | Requiem for His Most Christian Majesty, Louis XVI, King of France |
| | France, of course, was not a democracy at the time, so the final decision to aid the rebels was made by the king, Louis XVI. | | | Requiem for His Most Christian Majesty, Louis XVI, King of France | | | While his claim is certainly nonsense, I remember one interesting tidbit: his son, the Duke of Normandy, worked on the assembly line at Chrysler and his daughter, the Duchess of Aquitaine, was a bank teller. |
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| | Instrumental Analysis (CEM 333) Resource Page |
| | Both Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI were beheaded in the revolution and their son, the would-be King Louis XVII, was imprisioned. | | | After two years in prison the boy died, but rumors quickly spread that the real heir had escaped and the boy who died was an imposter. | | | Indeed, several people have claimed they are descended from the escaped Louis XVII and are the rightful monarchs of France! |
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| | 1793 |
| | Death of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette - Æ silvered |
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| | France |
| | Embassy of France: Washington, D.C. Flags of France | | | 14 July &; A National Holiday in France | | | note: on 1 January 1999, the EU introduced the euro as a common currency that is now being used by financial institutions in France at a fixed rate of 6.55957 French francs per euro and will replace the local currency for all transactions in 2002 |
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| | Essay: Louis XVI Saves His Head |
| | Summary: This paper discusses what Louis XVI of France might have done to save himself. |
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| | Louis XVI King Of FRANCE/Marie ANTOINETTE |
| | Name: Louis XVII Kg VON FRANKREICH, TITULAR Born: 1785 at: Married: at: Died: 1795 at: Paris France Spouses: | | | Born: 23 Aug 1754 at: Versailles, France Married: 1770 at: Died: 21 Jan 1793 at: Paris, France beheaded Father:A SON Mother: Other Spouses: | | | Born: 2 Nov 1755 at: Vienna, Austria Died: 16 Oct 1793 at: Paris, France qiullotined Father:Francis I Stephen vom Roemischen REICH Mother:Maria Theresa Archduchess VON OESTERREICH Other Spouses: |
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| | LOUIS XVI'S LAST TESTAMENT |
| | Baudrais immediately signed his name to authenticate it and deposited it with the commune, where it was signed and certified by Coulomneau, the secretary, and Drouel, the vice-president). | | | RETURN TO SUCCESSION TO HEADSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF FRANCE |
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| | 2001698474 |
| | [The Jardin du Peyron, (i.e., Peyrou), Louis XVI's (i.e., Louis XIV) statue, Montpelier, France] | | | Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in France in the Photochrom print collection. | | | Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in France |
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| | Louis XVI style Mirror, France c. 1900 |
| | Shipping outside United States: Quoted at time of purchase | | | Description: Mirror, Louis XVI style, France circa 1900. | | | Good condition with original mercury glass, beveled edge. |
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