Abstract

From April to June 1814 the First Bourbon Restoration settled onto its precarious foundations. Between April 15 and Louis XVIII's return on May 3 the comte d'Artois acted as Lieutenant-General of the Realm. On April 22 he appointed twenty-two Commissaires-extraordinaires du Roi for emergency missions, with delegated sovereign powers, in as many military divisions throughout mainland France and in Corsica.1 These envoys' brief missions-from April 22 until late Junehave not received serious attention from historians or memorialists of

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