In questo giorno, 200 anni fa, morì Luigi XVIII, re di Francia. Sarebbe stato l’ultimo monarca francese a morire da monarca regnante senza essere stato deposto.
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di Anthemius_Augustus
In questo giorno, 200 anni fa, morì Luigi XVIII, re di Francia. Sarebbe stato l’ultimo monarca francese a morire da monarca regnante senza essere stato deposto.
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di Anthemius_Augustus
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Taking power in the years following Napoleon, Louis XVIII ruled as King of France from 1814-1824 (with a brief interruption by Napoleon during the 100 days in 1814-1815).
Unlike his predecessors, Louis was not an absolute monarch, and took charge of a constitutional monarchy that tried to put France back on good standing after its defeat the Napoleonic Wars. Louis attempted to play a delicate balance between different political factions, never fully siding with either.
The king, suffering from morbid obesity, gout and both wet/dry gangrene was in poor health for the latter half of his reign and could barely walk. After his death he was interred at the Basilica St. Denis, where he still rests today.
France would have three more monarchs after him. Charles X (1824-1830), Louis-Philippe (1830-1848) and Napoleon III (1852-1870), but all of them would be deposed by revolution or military disaster.
What I find interesting is that he was the younger brother of Louis XVI, the one who was beheaded. And his successor was another brother, Charles X.
Didn’t they feel hot under all of those clothes? How do you even walk around?
This is what inequality looks like.