Louis XVIII (Classic Reprint)

Restoration, containing full accounts of the reign of Louis XVIII, have been written. M. Ernest Daudet gives us the result of long researches in his exhaustive work on the Emigration, which treats of Louis XVIII swanderings over Europe ;and in the numberless accounts of the French Revolution we come across manyreferences to the Comte de Provence, who is generally treated in an unfriendly spirit. This sketch, however, of Louis XVIII slife from cradle to grave is, I believe, the first attempt in the French or English language to link the different periods of his life together, and, however faultily, to present the man as a whole. Louis XVIII is personally an interesting figure ;politically he is a man to whom the French nation owe a deep debt of gratitude for introducing them to the benefits of constitutional government, as well as for the firm and dignified stand against the exigencies of the Allies in 1815, by which he saved the country from dismemberment.
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