Louis XVIII

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noun

1. Louis Xavier Stanislas, 1755–1824, king of France 1814–15, 1815–24 (brother of Louis XVI).

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Louis XVIII British  

noun

1. 1755–1824, king of France (1814–24); younger brother of Louis XVI. He became titular king after the death of Louis XVII (1795) and ascended the throne at the Bourbon restoration in 1814. He was forced to flee during the Hundred Days

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Louis XVIII

However, Louis XVIII, the restored French king, could not rule as an absolute monarch and had to recognize his subjects’ new constitutional rights to participate in government and regulate the king’s power.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Custom-made for the daughter of a French aristocrat two centuries ago, it was a spectacular, rare one-eighth-size cello produced by Bernardel, protégé of Nicolas Lupot, violin maker to King Louis XVIII.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020

Louis XVI’s brother assumed the throne as Louis XVIII.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

Disgraced, penniless, the young, atheistic republican stood on a Paris sidewalk and stared at the "hideous apparition" of "fat King Louis XVIII."

From Time Magazine Archive

On the 3d, it pronounced the end of Napoleon's power; on the 6th, it adopted a new constitution and called to the throne a brother of Louis XVI, who became Louis XVIII.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William