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What does the Bourbon Restoration take its name from?
The city of Bourbon where power was consolidated
Bourbon Hall where France's Parliament met
Bourbon, the favorite drink of French aristocrats
The House of Bourbon
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The Bourbon Restoration was an attempt to restart France's old monarchy, referred to as which of the following?
The Ancien Regime
The Cal Rhinenne
The Fronde
The Trente Glorieuses
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The Bourbon Restoration came about after the fall of what French emperor?
Robespierre
Gardon
Napoleon
Maximillian
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The Bourbon Restoration was briefly interrupted by Napoleon's hundred-day return to power. What battle then cast him down for the final time?
The Siege of Orleans
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive
The Battle of the Somme
Waterloo
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What man became the first King of France under the Bourbon Restoration?
Olivier I
Tristan I
John I
Louis XVIII
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The Bourbon Restoration largely happened because what minister of Napoleon's convinced the European powers that making France a monarchy again would bring about lasting peace?
Montesquieu
Talleyrand
St. Germain
Richelieu
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What form of government did the bourbon Restoration establish over France?
An absolute monarchy
A constitutional monarchy
A theocracy
The democratic republic
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France's Bourbon Restoration borders and its new monarchy were established by the other European powers at what meeting?
The Congress of Leeds
The Congress of Versailles
The Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Austerlitz
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What was the name of the constitution that created the new Bourbon Restoration monarchy?
The Charter of 1814
Bonaparte's End
The Pact of Fourteen
The Perfect Union
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Louis XVIII, the first Bourbon Restoration king, assuaged the fears of his people by making what declaration assuring them he would abide by the constitution and all limits it placed on his power?
The Pact of Brienne
The Pax-Guarantor
The Marseillene Discord
The Declaration of Saint-Ouen
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Bourbon Restoration France was largely governed by a bicameral legislature. The more powerful of the two legislative assemblies was filled by nobles, and it was called what?
The House of Lords
The House of Peers
The House of Gold
The House of Servants
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Below the House of Peers was what other legislative assembly whose members were elected by the people?
The House of the Public
The House of Commons
The House of Plebians
The House of Deputies
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King Louis XVIII replaced the tricolor Revolutionary flag of France with a plain one that exclusively consisted of what color?
Purple
Yellow
Green
White
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Following Louis XVIII's coronation, royalists in France enacted a murderous purge of their political opponents in a brief but bloody massacre called what?
The Second White Terror
The Second Red Terror
The Second Blue Terror
The Second Black Terror
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The first years of the Bourbon Restoration were rocky because King Louis XVIII was less of a royalist than his legislative associates. What political faction eventually came to power by moderating old Revolutionary policy and the new royalist system?
The Doctrianires
The Gironde
The Luminaires
The Rosas
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A national outrage swept Bourbon Restoration France after what radical nephew of Louis XVIII was killed by a Bonapartist?
The Duc de Berry
The Comte Gisborne
The Viscount Robinette
The Lord di Medici
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During the Bourbon Restoration, France was divided into 80 regional states called what?
Missions
Counties
Bureaus
Departments
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A noteworthy political faction during the Bourbon Restoration was what loose collective of those who had gained power under Napoleon and refused to give up their authority?
The Imperial Nobility
The Republican Nobility
The Theocratic Nobility
The Culpable Nobility
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Bourbon France invaded what other European country to support its king who was related to the Bourbon Dynasty?
Great Britain
Spain
Poland
Hungary
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Upon Louis XVIII's death, what man ascended to the throne?
Malory II
Charles X
Alexander V
Pierre VII
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Louis XVIII and Charles X both had claims to the French throne because they were both of what relation to the previous French king, Louis XVI?
The were Louis XVI's brothers.
They were Louis XVI's cousins.
They were Louis XVI's sons.
They were Louis XVI's uncles.
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The Bourbon Restoration saw what religious institution come into power over much of France after it had previously been ostracized during the Revolution?
The Lutheran Church
The English Church
The Catholic Church
The Huguenot Church
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In 1825, Bourbon France passed what peculiar law that leveraged the death penalty against people who stole the consecrated Eucharist from Catholic churches?
The Anti Witchcraft Act
The Damnation Act
The Anti Sacrilege Act
The Religious Protection Act
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Charles X reestablished what general rule of property which stated that belongings would pass down to firstborn male heirs?
Primogeniture
Hippageneaology
Infamercantalism
Courasanguinism
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Resistance against the Bourbon kings increased during Charles X's reign because of the rise of what opposition group that rallied people to legally protest his efforts and vote out his supporters?
Du Rien
Aide-Toi
Quesque Vouz
Parle
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Charles X expanded the power of the monarchy thanks to the support of what Ultra-Royalist Prime Minister who is now a hated figure in France's historical culture?
Cornifer du Gauld
Benedict Arnold
Anton Mackey
Joseph de Villele
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The Aide-Toi movement caused uproar against Charles X by circulating pamphlets that insinuated he promised the Pope he would do which of the following?
That Charles X would ban Protestants from France.
That Charles X would reinstate the tithe.
That Charles X would ensure clergy members had permanent seats in Parliament.
That Charles X would make it a crime to not attend weekly Catholic Mass.
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Charles X caused the downfall of the Bourbon Restoration when he passed what series of acts designed to nullify the Election of 1830 that voted out his royalist supporters?
The July Ordinances
The Gerrymander Acts
The Bold Restrictions
The Election Security Acts
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What common name is given to the political uprising that forced Charles X to abdicate?
The Blood and Honey Revolution
The Hateful Revolution
The Singing Revolution
The July Revolution
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The July Revolution ended the Bourbon Restoration by making what man the new Citizen-King of France?
Louis Philippe I
Alexandre Dumas
Napoleon III
Robespierre
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