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Bourbon Kingdom of France
1814/1815–1848
After Napoleon's fall the Bourbons were restored under Louis XVIII (1814–1815, then 1815–1824), who granted the Charter of 1814, establishing a constitutional monarchy with a Chamber of Peers and Chamber of Deputies. His reactionary brother Charles X (1824–1830) issued the July Ordinances of 1830 (dissolving the Chamber, restricting the franchise, muzzling the press), triggering the July Revolution (the "Three Glorious Days," 27–29 July 1830).
- Existed
- 1814/1815–1848
- Shown on the map
- 1815–1847
- Peak area
- 648k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
After Napoleon's fall the Bourbons were restored under Louis XVIII (1814–1815, then 1815–1824), who granted the Charter of 1814, establishing a constitutional monarchy with a Chamber of Peers and Chamber of Deputies. His reactionary brother Charles X (1824–1830) issued the July Ordinances of 1830 (dissolving the Chamber, restricting the franchise, muzzling the press), triggering the July Revolution (the "Three Glorious Days," 27–29 July 1830). Charles X abdicated, and the crown passed to the Orléanist Louis Philippe I, the "Citizen King," who reigned as King of the French in the July Monarchy (1830–1848), a bourgeois liberal monarchy that fell in the Revolution of 1848. (The source table's range "1815–1847" corresponds to this Restoration-and-July-Monarchy span; the July Monarchy properly ended in February 1848.)
Common questions
- What was the Bourbon Kingdom of France?
- After Napoleon's fall the Bourbons were restored under Louis XVIII (1814–1815, then 1815–1824), who granted the Charter of 1814, establishing a constitutional monarchy with a Chamber of Peers and Chamber of Deputies. His reactionary brother Charles X (1824–1830) issued the July Ordinances of 1830 (dissolving the Chamber, restricting the franchise, muzzling the press), triggering the July Revolution (the "Three Glorious Days," 27–29 July 1830).
- When did the Bourbon Kingdom of France exist?
- The Bourbon Kingdom of France existed 1814/1815–1848. On this map it is drawn 1815–1847.
- How large was the Bourbon Kingdom of France?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Bourbon Kingdom of France covered about 648,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Bourbon Restoration in France en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Restoration_in_France
This entry was last updated .
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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