1820, FRANCE: LOUIS XVIII the KING of FRANCE (1755 1824). known as"The Desired" (le Désiré). portrait engraved in 1840. Was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1814 to 1824 except for a period in 1815 known as the Hundred Days. Louis XVIII spent twenty-three years in exile, from 1791 to 1814, during the French Revolution and the First French Empire, and again in 1815, during the period of the Hundred Days, upon the return of Napoleon I Bonaparte from Elba. Married with italian Marie Joséphine of Savoy (Maria Giuseppina Luigia di SAVOIA, 1753 1810) Countess of Provence and Queen of France from 1795