The political term “restoration” (from the Latin restaurare, “to rebuild”, “to renew”) denotes the re-establishment of a legitimate authority temporarily interrupted by force (Violence). In English history, it is used to refer to the period of Stuart rule (the “Stuart Restoration”) between 1660 and 1688, following the English Revolution and Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth. It was then applied in a similar way, in France in 1814, to the re-installation of the Bourbon Dynasty and…