Sentence examples for french bourbon from inspiring English sources

(French trends began to influence Spanish artistic styles after a royal succession placed a French Bourbon on the Spanish throne in 1700).

The book's weakness is that it tries to cover too much, from the unification of Spain to the 18th-century revitalisation of the empire under the French Bourbon kings.

After the restoration of the French Bourbon monarchy in 1815, the Bastille became an underground symbol for Republicans.

But coming from Ms. Clinton, the statement was as risible as would have been Napoleon during his 1804 self-coronation as Emperor warning the audience against the French Bourbon dynasty because it lusted for too much power.

The name Bourbon comes from the French Bourbon Dynasty, Bourbon County, Kentucky and New Orleans.

They are like the French Bourbons, who learned nothing and forgot nothing.

"They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing," the crafty Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand said of the French Bourbons.

After the restoration of the French Bourbons in 1814 15, the French intervened in 1823 to restore the authority of Ferdinand VII of Spain.

The Pactes de Famille generally had the effect of involving Spain in European and colonial wars on the side of the French Bourbons (e.g., the Seven Years' War, 1756 63).

At the Congress of Vienna (1814 15), Austria and the French Bourbons were hostile to the upstart prince, and the son of the deposed Gustav was a potential pretender to the throne.

Believing that Philip III might maintain Spanish supremacy in Europe to some extent by relying on dynastic hegemony, Lerma worked to continue the series of marriages between members of the Spanish royal house and Viennese Habsburgs or French Bourbons.