Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Louis XVIII ya yi sarauta a matsayin sarki na dan kadan kasa da shekaru goma. Gwamnatin Maido da Bourbon ta kasance masarauta ta tsarin mulki, ba kamar "Ancien Régime" ba, wanda ya kasance mai cikakken iko. A matsayin masarauta na tsarin mulki, an rage ikon sarauta na Louis XVIII ta hanyar Yarjejeniyar 1814, sabuwar kundin tsarin mulkin Faransa. Da dawowarsa a 1815 ya haifar da wani na biyu na White Terror jagorancin Ultra-royalist bangare. A shekara mai zuwa, Louis ya rushe majalisa maras kyau, wanda ake kira "Chambre introuvable", wanda ya haifar da 'yan adawa na Doctrinaires. An kuma nuna mulkinsa ta hanyar kafa kungiyar Quintuple Alliance da kuma aikin soja a Spain.
Ka yi haƙuri. Louis ba shi da yara, don haka a kan mutuwarsa kambi ya wuce ga ɗan'uwansa, Charles X. Louis XVIII shi ne sarki na ƙarshe na Faransa da ya mutu yayin da yake mulki, kamar yadda Charles X (1824<unk>1830) ya yi watsi da shi kuma duka Louis Philippe I (1830<unk>1848) da Napoleon III (1852<unk>1870) sun yi watsi da shi.