Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: He iti iho i te tekau tau te roa o te kingitanga o Louis XVIII. Ko te kawanatanga o te Whakahokinga Bourbon he kingi ture, kaore i rite ki te "Ancien Régime", he tino rangatira. I te mea he kingi ture, ko nga mana rangatira o Louis XVIII i tino whakaitihia e te Kaupapa o te 1814, te kaupapa ture hou o France. Ko tana hokinga mai i te tau 1815 i arahi ki te ngaru tuarua o te White Terror i arahina e te roopu Ultra-royalist. I te tau e whai ake nei, ka whakakorehia e Louis te whare paremata kaore i tino manakohia, e kiia ana ko te "Chambre introuvable", ka ara ake nga Doctrinaires liberal. I tohuhia ano tana kingitanga e te hanganga o te Whakawhanaunga e rima me te
te whakauru hōia ki Pāniora. Kaore a Louis i whai tamariki, no reira i tona matenga ka riro te karauna ki tona tuakana, a Charles X. Ko Louis XVIII te kingi whakamutunga o Parani i mate i a ia e kingi ana, i te mea i whakarerea e Charles X (1824<unk>1830) a ko Louis Philippe I (1830<unk>1848) me Napoleon III (1852<unk>1870) i whakakorehia.