’Vive Le Roi’ is a French song written in 1814 to celebrate the restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. The song was written by Rouget de Lisle. In 1814 after Napoleon I’s reign ended, the brother of Louis XVI, and uncle of Louis XVII, became King of France as Louis XVIII, his reign lasted into early 1815, until Napoleon returned to France from exile and tried to retake the nation, he failed and Louis reigned until his death in 1824, when the French throne passed to his brother Charles.