Louis XVIII of France

English: Louis XVIII (17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), was a King of France and Navarre. The brother of Louis XVI of France, and uncle of Louis XVII of France, he ruled the kingdom from 1814 (although he dated his reign from 1795) until his death in 1824, with a brief break in 1815 due to Napoleon I of France return in the Hundred Days. He was a member of the House of Bourbon.

Portraits

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  Portrait in coronation dress
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  Louis XVIII, 1789
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  (2), cropped
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  Portrait with the blue riband
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  George Cruikshank: Old Bumblehead the 18th trying on the Napoleon Boots (Napoleon II is waiting for his crown)

Related pictures

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  Zoé Talon, comtesse du Cayla, mistress, with Ugolin and Ugoline, painting by François Gérard, 1825
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  1815: A dress with 18 tucks worn by French royalists to show their loyalty to Louis XVIII and the restored Bourbon dynasty
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  Tomb at Cathédrale Saint-Denis
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  Venus de Milo, ca. 130-100 BC, a gift of the Marquis de Rivière to Louis XVIII of France, 1821