Historians have no doubt that bourbon was named after the House of Bourbon, a long line of European monarchs who ruled France from 1589 to 1792 (and again for short periods in the 1800s).

The French Revolution, which began in 1789, put a temporary end to France's monarchy and the House of Bourbon's rule — which had lasted from 1589 to 1792 — in France. The monarchy ended ...

Meanwhile Don Alfonso, last of Spain’s Bourbon monarchs, having prudently invested tens of millions of pesetas in foreign bonds and stocks while he sat upon Spain’s throne, did not go hungry ...

In 1793, a demonstration was held in downtown Paris in memory of Louis XVI, who was executed by the guillotine during the ...