King Louis XVIII was the last Bourbon Monarch in France from 1814 until his death in 1824. Louis XVIII ascended to the throne following the resolution of the Napoleonic wars, as the royalists sought to restore the monarchy in France.[1] The previous King of France, King Louis XVI, was beheaded in 1793 during the French Revolution. As the brother of the beheaded King Louis XVI, Louis XVIII was considered the “rightful” King by his fellow legitimists who believed in hereditary rights to rule.[2] Despite King Louis XVIII legitimist beliefs, he was a child of the Enlightenment who promised to preserve some of the Revolutionary ideals mainly through the establishment of a constitutional monarchy. Unfortunately, shortly after Louis XVIII’s accession
