Bourbon Restoration in France
The Second Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the fall of the First French Empire in 1815. The Second Bourbon Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 26 July 1830. Louis XVIII and Charles X, brothers of the executed King Louis XVI, successively mounted the throne and instituted a conservative government intended to restore the proprieties, if not all the institutions, of the Ancien Régime. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France but were unable to reverse most of the changes made by the French Revolution. Exhausted by decades of war, the nation experienced a period of internal and external peace, stable economic prosperity and the preliminaries of industrialization.
Kingdom of France | |||||||||
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| Motto: Montjoie Saint Denis! "Montjoy Saint Denis!" | |||||||||
| Anthem: Le Retour des Princes français à Paris "The Return of the French Princes to Paris" | |||||||||
The Kingdom of France in 1818 | |||||||||
| Capital | Paris | ||||||||
| Common languages | French | ||||||||
| Religion | Catholic Church (State religion) Calvinism Lutheranism Judaism | ||||||||
| Demonym(s) | French | ||||||||
| Government | Unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
| King | |||||||||
• 1815–1824 | Louis XVIII | ||||||||
• 1824–1830 | Charles X | ||||||||
• 1830 | Louis XIX (disputed) | ||||||||
• 1830 | Henry V (disputed) | ||||||||
| President of the Council of Ministers | |||||||||
• 1815 (first) | Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord | ||||||||
• 1829–1830 (last) | Jules de Polignac | ||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament | ||||||||
• Upper house | Chamber of Peers | ||||||||
• Lower house | Chamber of Deputies | ||||||||
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| 1815 | |||||||||
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| 6 April 1823 | |||||||||
| 26 July 1830 | |||||||||
| Currency | French franc | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | FR | ||||||||
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