Monograph on the life and work of the leader of the French royalist movement in 1794-1799 - Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, Count of Provence, proclaimed king in 1795 under the name of Louis XVIII. The era of Thermidor and the Directory was in France a time of fatigue from the republic and nostalgia for the monarchy, royalists now and then won elections to the central authorities, the restoration of royal power seemed not only possible, but also inevitable.