Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What successes
did Louis have
up to 1820 &
why was he
successful?
- Successes
- Able
ministers
(Richelieu,
Decazes)
- Finances
overhauled &
credit
re-established
- E.g. 1818 - new
accounting
system + dept.
reports
- By 1818, only
Br had better
finances (role
of Corvetto)
- Indemnity
promptly
paid off
- Army of
occupation
left by 1818
- New Law (Law
Gouvion St Cyr -
1818) created
professional army of
240,000 men
- Electoral laws
of Charter
confirmed
- Voter over 30 paying
300 FPY taxes, deps over
40 paying 1000 FPY
taxes ... annual renewal
of chamber by 5ths
- New press laws
in 1819 temp
abolished
censorship
- Although laws
also ensured press
was by rich, for
rich - in any case
were repealed in
1820
- Readmitted to
Concert of Eu at
Congress of Aix - la
- Chapelle, 1818
- Difficulties of
1814 / 15 seemed
to have been
overcome - 'spirit'
of Charter being
upheld
- Why was
Louis
successful?
- Eco
recovery
from war
- Use of able 1st
mins (Richelieu &
Decazes) who had
support in
Chamber
- After closing
Chambre
Introuvable -
1815.
- 'Unfindable
chamber' - so royalist
(full of Ultras) that
King wouldn't have
been able to find it if
he tried
- BUT Louis
didn't want
chamber dom
by Ultras
- Prevented a
counter rev
by the Ultras
- Convinced influential
pays legal that he was
determined to honour
'spirit of the Charter' &
rule as mod