Abstract
After the tumultuous years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the Bourbons in France and Spain were looking for a hero: someone from their own ranks, with the potential to reconnect the armed forces to the monarchy and restore the dynasty’s claim to military glory. The power of the early modern monarchy traditionally had been forged, expanded or destroyed by means of war. Yet from the late seventeenth century the Bourbon monarchs had put more emphasis on courtly representation than on physical presence at the head of their armies, with the result that Spain and France had not been ruled by a roi de guerre for a very long time. This chapter will discuss how, after 1815, two Bourbon princes, the Duc d’Angoulême in France and Don Carlos in Spain, sought to restore their dynasty’s severely damaged military image.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A History of the European Restorations |
| Subtitle of host publication | Governments, States and Monarchy |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Chapter | 14 |
| Pages | 183-200 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781786726520 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781788318037, 9781350271876 |
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| Publication status | Published - 14 Nov 2019 |
| Event | The Price of Peace: Modernising the Ancien Régime? Europe 1815-1848 - Duration: 23 Aug 2016 → 23 Aug 2016 |
Other
| Other | The Price of Peace: Modernising the Ancien Régime? Europe 1815-1848 |
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| Period | 23/08/16 → 23/08/16 |