BOURBON L'Archambaud, a small town of France, remarkable for its baths, which are exceedingly hot. E. Long. 3. 28. N. Lat. 46. 35.
Family of Bourbon are the reigning princes in the kingdom of France. Henry IV. in 1589, though of the 10th generation, was the nearest heir; and succeeded Henry III. (the last of the Valois race), whose brother Francis II. married Mary Queen of Scots, and both died without issue. Louis XVI. is the 5th king of this family in succession. This family also mounted the throne of Spain in 1700, by Philip V. grandson to Louis XIV. which was the occasion of the long and bloody war that ended in the peace of Utrecht. A branch of the Spanish family likewise mounted the throne of the two Sicilies in 1734. These three branches entered into a treaty offensive and defensive in 1761, which goes by the name of the family compact.