War and Peace · Character
Louis XVIII
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 353
He comes into view through an awkward turn of reputation: a monarch whose authority follows a period when French people and the Allies had made him an object of ridicule. There is a curious tension between that public mockery and the solemn fact of a reign beginning.
- Gender
- male
- Age
- adult
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 353
- Books
- 1
Tolstoy notes that Louis XVIII began to reign after having been the laughingstock of both the French and the Allies. The later reference offers no further personal history or relationships, leaving his return to kingship as the defining detail. He appears briefly as one more figure in the shifting fortunes of European power.
Description
Louis XVIII is identified as an adult man, but the text gives no further physical description. His height, build, skin tone, hair, eyes, facial features, clothing, and distinguishing marks remain unspecified; a more detailed portrait would be invented.
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