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Sagunto
Sagunto , Latin Saguntum, town (1990 pop. 58,135), Valencia prov., E Spain, on the Palencia River, in Valencia. A seaport on the Mediterranean, it is an important metallurgical center, with iron and steel foundries. Saguntum was an ally of Rome when it was besieged and captured (219-218 BC) by the... Read more
Bartimaeus
Bartimaeus , in the New Testament, blind man to whom Jesus restored sight. ... Read more
Paul Louis Courier
Paul Louis Courier (Paul Louis Courier de Méré) , 1772-1825, French political writer and classical scholar. His translation (1810) of the Greek text of Daphnis and Chloë is considered excellent. After the Bourbon restoration, which he opposed, he devoted himself to writing tre... Read more
Michael
Michael 1921-, king of Romania (1927-30, 1940-47). His father, Prince Carol (later Carol II ), renounced his right of succession in 1925, and young Michael ascended the throne under a regency on the death of Ferdinand . However, in 1930 his father returned to be recognized as king. When Carol II ... Read more
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand , 1754-1838, French statesman and diplomat. Born into the high nobility, he was early destined for the Roman Catholic Church because of a childhood accident that left him partially lame. Despite Talleyrand's notorious impiety, he was made (1789) bishop of Autun by King ... Read more
Condé
Condé , family name of a cadet branch of the French royal house of Bourbon . The name was first borne by Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, 1530-69, Protestant leader and general. He fought the Spanish at Metz (1552) and Saint-Quentin (1557) but won little favor at court. After hi... Read more
Mephibosheth
Mephibosheth , in the Bible. 1 Jonathan's lame son to whom David restored Saul's lands. For the relation between the names of this man, see Baal . 2 Son of Saul. ... Read more
Sanballat
Sanballat , in the Bible, one of the Persian officials in Palestine who consistently opposed Nehemiah in his restoration of Jerusalem. He is called a Horonite, a designation perhaps from the name Bethhoron. ... Read more
Robert Stewart Castlereagh, 2d Viscount
Robert Stewart Castlereagh, 2d Viscount , 1769-1822, British statesman, b. Ireland. Entering the Irish Parliament in 1790 and the British Parliament in 1794, he was acting chief secretary for Ireland at the time of the Irish rebellion of 1798. Having worked for the Act of Union of England and Irelan... Read more
Parma
Parma , city (1991 pop. 170,520), capital of Parma prov., in Emilia-Romagna, N Italy, on the Parma River and on the Aemilian Way. It is a rich agricultural market, a transportation junction, and a major industrial center. Manufactures include textiles, machinery, footwear, pharmaceuticals, processed... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Bourbon Restoration"

Bourbons
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Bourbons European dynastic family, descendants of the Capetians...in 1327, and continued until 1527. A cadet branch, the Bourbon-Vendôme line, won the kingdom of Navarre. The Bourbons ruled France from 1589 (when Henry of Navarre became Henry...family, Louis XVIII and Charles X , reigned after the ... Read more
Restoration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Napoleon I and the return of the Bourbon king, Louis XVIII, but was...restored as king of France. The Bourbon regime was responsible for...and expansion and for the restoration of French prestige abroad...Ultra-Royalism and the French Restoration (1936); G. de Bertier de...1966); J. H. Stewart, ... Read more
Camille Hyacinthe Odilon Barrot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , 1791-1873, French political leader. An opponent of the Bourbon restoration, he aided the July Revolution (1830), but he was disappointed in the bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe. He became a leader of... Read more
Condé
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...killed at the battle of Jarnac. His son, Henri I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, 1552-88, was also a Huguenot general. Henri II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, 1588-1646, French political leader...XIV. His elder son, Louis II (see Condé, Louis II de Bourbon, prince de ) was known as the Great Condé. ... Read more
Jean Baptiste Séraphin Joseph Villèle, comte de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , 1773-1854, French statesman and premier (1822-28). Elected (1815) a deputy after the Bourbon restoration, he became leader of the extreme royalists in the chamber of deputies. He entered the ministry of the duc de Richelieu in 1820... Read more
Risorgimento
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Resurgence’) Nationalist movement (1859–70) resulting in the unification of Italy. With the restoration of Austrian and Bourbon rule in 1815, revolutionary groups formed, notably the Young Italy movement of Mazzini , whose aim was... Read more
Henry IV (France) (1553 – 1610; Ruled 1589 – 1610)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Europe. He was the first of the Bourbon kings, and his family ruled...1789 and again during the Restoration (1815 – 1830). Much...arn. His father, Antoine de Bourbon, the duke of Vend ô me...blood and headed the powerful Bourbon-Vend ô me household...to southwestern France. The ... Read more
Laurent Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, marquis de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was made marshal following his victory at Polotsk (1812). After the Bourbon restoration he served twice (1815, 1817-19) as minister of war and was instrumental in passing a law to organize military... Read more
Charles X
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Louis XVIII, he was the last Bourbon king of France. Charles...1830), which overthrew the Bourbon dynasty. On August 16 Charles...Bertier de Sauvigny, The Bourbon Restoration (1963 ed.; trans. 1966...Artz, France under the Bourbon Restoration, 1814-1830 (1931), presents... Read more
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of letters. During Spain's recurrent political crises from 1868 to 1874, he took the lead in advocating the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. When Alfonso XII was proclaimed (1875) king, Cánovas established a regency ministry and became premier... Read more

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Bourbon
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...IX of France, married the heiress to the lordship of Bourbon. The first duke was their son, Louis I (1279–...of the family, but in 1527 headship of the house of Bourbon passed to the line of Marche-Vendôme. Antoine de Bourbon (1518–62), Duc de Vendôme, became King...Charles X ... Read more
La Roche‐sur‐Yon
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...Napoléon‐Vendée, Bourbon‐Vendée ‘Rock on...1814 and flight to Elba it was renamed Bourbon‐Vendée after the Restoration of the House of Bourbon. Following Napoleon's return to France...Battle of Waterloo a few months later, ... Read more
Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...powerful liberal and republican sympathies saved him from the guillotine during the French Revolution, and after the Bourbon restoration he developed a system of ideas about social progress . What he created has been called the ‘characteristic... Read more
Prado
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...was pillaged by the invading French army in 1808. After the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Ferdinand VII had the building repaired...made in the course of three centuries by the Habsburg and Bourbon monarchs of Spain, who included some of the most discriminating... Read more
Latin American Wars of Independence
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...century with a series of reforms launched by the Spanish Bourbons aimed at gaining greater administrative control over...European descent born in the Americas). However, under the Bourbons, Creole officials were increasingly replaced by Spanish-bo...layers of society in the Americas were antagonized by the ... Read more

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Louis XVIII's cult[ural] politics, 1815-1820 *.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...France during the Bourbon Restoration (1814/1815-1830...seventeenth-century Bourbon monarch swearing...Catholic Church in Restoration government and...a heritage of Bourbon suffering. King...between the Second Restoration of Louis XVIII... Read more
The Constitutional Monarchy in France, 1814-1848.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 7/1/2001; 209 words ; ...99 p.b. 140 pages. ISBN 0582-31210-8. Between the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814 and the flight of Louis Philippe...the revolution of 1830. The author discusses the restoration of 1814, Napoleon's 100 Days', and the social tensions... Read more
Chantal Thomas, The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...writer, Stefan Zweig, put forward a new proposition: Marie-Antoinette was neither the great saint of ... [the Bourbon Restoration] nor yet the great whore of the Revolution, but a mediocre, an average woman; not exceptionally able nor yet exceptionally... Read more
Clash by night.(Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War )(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/27/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...nightmare of Napoleonic tyranny the French priest Felicite de Lamennais had in mind when he declared, following the Bourbon Restoration: I have no hesitation in saying that, of all Bonaparte's conceptions, [this is] the most appalling to every considering... Read more
Giacomo Meyerbeer and music drama in nineteenth-century Paris.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 142 words ; ...Italian opera. Everist follows a variety of trajectories across the history of French stage music between the Bourbon Restoration and the Commune, including the concept of reception and its impact on the repertory he describes; the importance... Read more
Women & politics: Madame de Duras.
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...the prominent influential political figures of the Bourbon Restoration--constructed her delicate and moving tale, Ourika...during the Revolution and after the restoration of the Bourbons in 1814-15. It is not only for her claims as a talented... Read more
Paris Between Empires: 1814-1852. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 1/1/2002; 167 words ; ...knowledge of and sympathy for that much ridiculed monarch to this book where he shows the genuine achievements of the Bourbon Restoration. The book moves marvellously through a variety of topics: the role of salons; the influence of the English 'colony... Read more
Industry Members 'Dig' Washington's Distillery.
Magazine article from: StateWays; 7/1/2001; 248 words ; ...wholesaler and retailer organizations) for a $1.2 million restoration project at the site, which would provide for authentic...to the archeological site that is to be the focus of the restoration. BATF director Bradley Buckles and Virginia Alcoholic Beverage...Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, Very Old Barton, ... Read more
Industry Members 'Dig' WASHINGTON'S DISTILLERY.
Magazine article from: Beverage Dynamics; 7/1/2001; 248 words ; ...wholesaler and retailer organizations) for a $1.2 million restoration project at the site, which would provide for authentic...to the archeological site that is to be the focus of the restoration. BATF director Bradley Buckles and Virginia Alcoholic Beverage...Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, Very Old Barton, ... Read more
Reality and recovering hope.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/2/2007; ; 558 words ; ...that the party goes on, that the nation wants to believe a restoration is underway. No one I know would want to throw gloom in the...that New Orleans is two cities, one of charm, cuisine and Bourbon Street, and the other of hidden, desperate poverty. As he... Read more