HistoricalPeriod

Bourbon Restoration in France

Overview

The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814 and 1815. Exiled supporters of the monarchy returned to France, which had been profoundly changed by the French Revolution. Exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars, the kingdom experienced a period of internal and external peace, stable economic prosperity and the preliminaries of industrialisation. The July Revolution of 1830 effectively ended the restoration during the reign of Charles X, brother of the late King Louis XVI, leading to the July Monarchy and eventually the French Second Republic.

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Philosophers who discussed Bourbon Restoration in France

• Marquis de Sade
• Voltaire
• Antoine Destutt de Tracy
• Louis de Bonald
• Maine de Biran
• Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
• Félicité de La Mennais

Place in the tradition

Part of Conservatism.

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