2-702-571 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Ludwig XVIII', (1933). Portrait of Louis XVIII, King of France (1755-1824). Louis became king in 1814 when the monarchy was restored after the defeat of Napoleon. He fled Paris when Napoleon returned from Elba to re-establish his rule during the Hundred Days in 1815 but regained the throne after Bonaparte's final defeat at Waterloo. After a miniature by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]