The House of Bourbon is a European royal dynasty who have reigned over many areas including France, Spain, the Two Sicilies, Parma and more.

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• Nobles and heralds, by your leave,
  Here lies what once was Matthew Prior;
  The son of Adam and of Eve:
  Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?
  • Matthew Prior, Epitaph (1721)

• I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.
  • François-René de Chateaubriand, De la restauration et de la monarchie élective (1831)

• I see that God died on a gibbet eighteen hundred years ago on behalf of the Bourbon family.
  • A sceptic of the throne and altar political alliance of Catholicism and Monarchism. Quoted in The New Cambridge Modern History (1965)

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