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Second White Terror (1815): How the Bourbons Crushed Bonapartist Supporters

The Second White Terror was a period of royalist violence and reprisals against supporters of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Louis XVIII in 1815.

By Hrothsige Frithowulf
Assassination of Marshal Brune second white terror
Assassination of Marshal Brune. Credit: Oil on canvas by Jean-Jacques Scherrer, 1881, Musée Labenche, Brive-la-Gaillarde.

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