Louis XVIII of France

1755–1824

Louis XVIII was king of France after the fall of Napoleon, ruling during the Bourbon Restoration. His reign involved balancing royal authority, constitutional settlement and the divisions left by revolution, empire and occupation.

In Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, his story draws together Fantine, Cosette, Javert, Marius and the Thénardiers, moving from personal guilt and mercy into the poverty, policing and political unrest of post-Napoleonic France. Winston Graham’s The Twisted Sword places Louis XVIII of France within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, military command and battlefield decision-making, and political ambition and government. Other novels featuring Louis XVIII of France include Winston Graham’s Bella Poldark.

Series

Series featuring Louis XVIII of France (1 series)

Poldark in Order

by Winston Graham 12 books 4.4

The Poldark novels follow Ross, Demelza and their family in Cornwall from the aftermath of the American Revolutionary War through the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and into the Regency aftermath. The series combines mining, gentry politics, coastal smuggling, marriage, family conflict and the pressure of war on…

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