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

However, the French and Spanish branches of the Bourbons were to be permanently distinct from one another: France would not control Spain, in other words.

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

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

What’s for sale: Broad-Breasted Bronzes, 15-25 pounds; heritage Red Bourbons and Narragansetts, 10-20 pounds.

From Washington Post

In the following month, the people of France rose and drove the Bourbons from their kingdom.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.