The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . AVIGNON. 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,
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . AVIGNON. 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
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