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 18th century, when more conservative Bourbons succeeded to the Spanish throne, these private rooms became guardhouses for masterpieces they would have been happy to burn.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 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

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

From Washington Post

First Series: From the Commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815.

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