Bourbons

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1. The ruling family of France from the late sixteenth century until the French Revolution. The Bourbon kings were known for their stubbornness; the politician Talleyrand is supposed to have said of them, “They have learned nothing, and they have forgotten nothing.” Louis xiv and Louis xvi were Bourbon kings.

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Finally, the Bourbons imposed economic reforms, and these were often unpopular as well.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

By the dawn of the 18th-century, Spain had a new ruling dynasty, the Bourbons, but the pace of royal collecting and commissioning remained apace.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2019

What’s for sale: Broad-Breasted Whites and heritage Red Bourbons, 8-12 pounds.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016

As Anne Parmly Toxey points out in her comprehensive 2011 study, “Materan Contradictions,” Greeks, Romans, Longobards, Byzantines, Saracens, Swabians, Angevins, Aragonese, and Bourbons all passed through the town.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015

The vault of the Bourbons was thoroughly ransacked, in the same spirit of desolation.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School