The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . LOUIS XVIII Chapter LIII 1814-1815 When Napoleon was overthrown the government ofFrance fell into the hands of the Emperor of Russia, theEmperor of Austria, and an exceedingly adroit French-man whose name was Talleyrand. These three decidedthat Louis, the brother of Louis the Sixteenth, was theproper person to succeed the emperor; he was to beknown as Louis the Eighteenth, because the poor littledauphin, who had died in the Temple and had neverreigned at all, must be c
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . LOUIS XVIII Chapter LIII 1814-1815 When Napoleon was overthrown the government ofFrance fell into the hands of the Emperor of Russia, theEmperor of Austria, and an exceedingly adroit French-man whose name was Talleyrand. These three decidedthat Louis, the brother of Louis the Sixteenth, was theproper person to succeed the emperor; he was to beknown as Louis the Eighteenth, because the poor littledauphin, who had died in the Temple and had neverreigned at all, must be counted among the kings ofFrance, as Louis the Seventeenth. It was agreed that theconquests of Napoleon should be given up, and that, underher new king, France, with her old boundaries, shouldmake such laws for herself as she saw fit, without foreigninterference. Louis the Eighteenth was a fat man of sixty, who hadspent the last twenty-five years in England and had be-come very English indeed. He had never had any ex-perience in public affairs or in the wars of the day. He. TALLEYRAND was a quiet old gentleman, who loved his ease and hisbooks ; he was-fond of the Latin poets ; he was also fondof English roast beef and plum pudding; in the middle ofa good dinner he would eat half a dozen lamb chops justby way of whetting his appetite. You will not be sur-prised to hear that he was gouty and walked with diffi-culty. He wore a blue coat with epaulets, an English hat,and red velvet gaiters which hid his swollen legs. Hehad neither wife nor children, but the daughter of Louisthe Sixteenth, who was called the Duchess of Angouleme,lived with him and took care of him. Another lady, whowas beautiful and gifted, and whose name was Madame 368 [1814-1815 Du Cayla, also took care of him and bandaged his gouty-legs. He was so sluggish that, when he was told he waswanted in Paris to reign over France, he was loath toleave his quiet English home. But he came, landed atCalais on April 24th, 1814
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