books.google.com - At the time of Dupuytren's birth in 1777, France was still governed by an absolute monarch, Louis XVI. When Dupuytren died in 1835, he had lived through two revolutions (1789 and 1830), a republic, a Directoire', a consulate, an empire under Napoleon and another two royal restorations under Louis XVIII...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Life_and_Times_of_Guillaume_Dupuytre.html?id=OWrznUOS1agC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Life and Times of Guillaume Dupuytren, 1777-1835