The monarchy was restored to France,with Louis 16 s younger brother becoming King Louis 18.(There was no Louis 17 as a mark of respect to Louis 16 s son ,who died soon after his father.)
Louis 18 ruled carefully and with a moderate constitution.He kept Napoleon's civil code,his system of local government and the education system.
The privileges of the nobility were not restored.When Louis' successors, Charles 10 ignored the constitution and tried to rule as a despot, he was overthrown by another revolution in 1830.Charles was replaced by a more liberal monarch,Louis Phillippe,nicknamed
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