... dangers great. The Assembly elected in 1815 was dominated by the Ultras who now organised the 'White Terror' of revenge against known Bonapartists and Republicans. At this point Louis could well, with Ultra support, have carried out a coup to restore the power and trappings of the Ancien Regime. To his great credit he turned his back on this temptation and, by supporting the moderate ministry of Decazes from 1816 to 1820, probably played the key role in the successful restoration of the Bourbons as a regime which was acceptable to enough Frenchmen to ensure its survival. He was assisted by good harvests and general economic recovery but his own good sense in limiting, so far as he was able, the excesses of the privileged survivors of pre-revolutionary France, has been given l ess then just recognition in the restoration of the Bourbon regime. The assassination of Louis' nephew the Duke de ...

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