Restoration

(The,) (rès-to-ra's hun.) [From L. res tau ratio, a renewal. ] (Eng. Hist.) The distinctive name given to the act which replaced the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles II. on the throne, after the Interregnum which lasted from Jan. 30, 1649, till May 29, 1660.-(Fr. Hist.) The first R. begins May 3, 1814, when Louis XVIII. made his entry into Paris under the protection of foreign bayonets, and ended with the return of Napoleon from Elba, March 20, 1815. The beginning of the second R. is generally reckoned from the battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815, which destroyed forever the power of Napoleon, and terminated on July 29, 1830, with the abdication of Charles X. [s. 765]