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Louis XVIII (1755-1824)King of France 1814-24, the younger brother of Louis XVI. He assumed the title of king in 1795, having fled into exile in 1791 during the French Revolution, but became king only on the fall of Napoleon I in April 1814. Expelled during Napoleon's brief return (the ‘hundred days’) in 1815, he resumed power after Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo, pursuing a policy of calculated liberalism until ultra-royalist pressure became dominant after 1820. |
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An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, now rose and proposed the health of King Louis XVIII. That's the reason why he didn't put on mourning for Louis XVIII. So imprisoned and tortured was this gentle little heart, when in the month of March, Anno Domini 1815, Napoleon landed at Cannes, and Louis XVIII fled, and all Europe was in alarm, and the funds fell, and old John Sedley was ruined. |
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Louis XVIII
