Today is the 200th anniversary of the death of Louis XVIII by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre (1755-1824, reigned 1814-1824)). The younger brother of the murdered Louis XVI (1754-1793), uncle of the titular Louis XVII (1785-1795), restored (twice) to the throne after the Napoleonic wars, he was the last French monarch to die whilst still on the Throne and the penultimate Catholic Monarch, since Louis-Phillipe, 'King of the French', who usurped the Throne in 1830, was a Freemason.
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| The solemn entrance of HM Louis XVIII into Paris by Porte Saint-Denis on 3 May 1814 |
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