Charles the second the son of Charles the first spent his exile in France, he was an admirer of the

sun king
and he had French tastes. Therefore, when the monarchy was restored he came back to England. Theatres,
race and tavern reopened and the fashion and the gossip replaced religious debate. Charles attended the
royal society which was an organization of scientist and estimators. As regard home policy, nobles regained
their power and the parliament named cavalier parliament. It ordered the exhumation and the hanging of
the responsible of the regicides. A series of acts were passed like the act of uniformity.

In England there was a devastating plague and the great fire of London destroyed nine-tenths of the
buildings and the walls. Charles asked to the architect Christopher wren to rebuild the old insanitary city
and he rebuild it with wide streets and squares and the buildings in neoclassical style. Charles finance the
rebuilding thanks to the France when he was in bad relationship with the parliament. When he died the
restoration of Catholicism was sure for the brother James the second.