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Y214: France 1814–1870

The reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X 1814–1830: the legacy of 1789, the Charter and Louis XVIII’s reign

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Overview

Recall questions on the legacy of the Revolution and Napoleon, the two restorations, the Charter of 1814 and its franchise, the Ultras, Richelieu and Decazes, the Double Vote, the Spanish expedition and Villèle.

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Who were the Ultras and what did they want?

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What did the Spanish expedition of 1823 achieve for the restored monarchy?

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  1. 1

    What did the Revolution and Napoleon leave behind for the restored monarchy in 1814?

    Model answer

    They left civil equality and the Civil Code, a centralised state run by prefects, a new landowning class holding former church and émigré land, and the memory of both popular sovereignty and military glory.

  2. 2

    How did the second restoration of 1815 differ from the first?

    Model answer

    The first came with generous terms and the frontiers of 1792, while the second, after the Hundred Days, imposed the frontiers of 1790, an indemnity of seven hundred million francs, an army of occupation and a White Terror in which Bonapartists and Protestants were murdered and Marshal Ney was shot.

  3. 3

    State the main provisions of the Charter of 1814, and explain why liberals resented the way it was issued.

    Model answer

    It granted a hereditary Chamber of Peers and an elected Chamber of Deputies, equality before the law and security for the holders of the biens nationaux, with Catholicism as the state religion; but it was issued as a free gift of the king in the nineteenth year of his reign, denying that sovereignty lay with the nation.

  4. 4

    State who could vote under the Charter.

    Model answer

    Only men aged thirty or over paying three hundred francs a year in direct taxes, roughly ninety thousand people in a nation of some twenty-nine million.

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    Who were the Ultras and what did they want?

    Model answer

    They were royalists, largely returned émigrés and clergy, who wanted the pre-1789 order restored, church control of education, compensation for confiscated land, and were said to be more royalist than the king.

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    Why did Louis XVIII dissolve the Chambre introuvable in 1816?

    Model answer

    Its Ultra majority was pressing vengeance and reaction so far that it threatened the Charter and alarmed the allied powers, so the king dissolved it and secured a more moderate chamber.

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