Gustave III of Sweden

Gustave III of Sweden (Gustav III) , (January 24th 1746 - March 29th 1792) was king of Sweden and prince de Finlande of the February 12th 1771 until its death. Wire of Adolphe Frederic of Sweden and Louise Ulrike of Prussia, the sister of Frederic Large the, it marries in 1766 Sophie, girl of Frederic V of Denmark, deceased in 1813. Gustave III had two children: Gustave IV Adolphe king de Suède and Charles born in 1782, duke of Småland, died in 1783.

History

Gustave III, francized prince and reader of the philosophers, succeeded his father Adolphe Frederic in 1771 and carried out a coup d'etat in August 1772 at the time when the country is on the point of sinking in anarchy. Supported by the army and the people, it makes stop the members of the riksdag, and the rad, which had the capacity since the constitution of 1719. It reigns then in enlightened Despote by reorganizing justice and finances, abolishing the Torture, encouraging primary school education, improving the country condition by amorçant the regrouping of the grounds, and by instituting the freedom of trade of the grains.

In 1789 it reinforces the absolutism to fight against the nobility by the Act of Union and safety, which grants to all the Swedes the equal rights, of which the access to the public office.

The good relationships which it maintained with the France were broken at the time of the French revolution. The March 16th 1792, the nobility fomented a plot and he was assassinated by Ankarström. His/her son Gustave IV Adolphe succeeded to him.

He was member of freemasonry. He had entered the cabins in 1780.

The style Gustavien

Following a voyage to Versailles, the king Gustave III of Sweden, conquered by the high decorative key of the court of king de France, introduced into its country these new aspects of decoration containing gray. The style " Gustavien " had been born.

Easily recognizable by the sober style and purified of its furniture, by its color, the style Gustavien finds its place in all the interiors. One can associate rough materials to him, like the jute, cotton, the flax, the parquet floor (tinted of gray), and the traditional white fabrics with red squares.

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