Bourbons

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

At this point, the war shifted in focus from a religious conflict to a dynastic struggle between the two greatest royal houses of Europe: the Bourbons of France and the Habsburgs of Austria.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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

Price per pound: $5.50 for Broad-Breasted Whites, $9 for heritage Red Bourbons.

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 Stuarts were the Bourbons of England, incapable of being taught by adversity.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James