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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Louis, dauphin de France
Louis Ferdinand, dauphin de France (1729-1765), born in Versailles, was the eldest and only surviving son of King Louis XV of France and Queen Marie Leszczyńska, and thus heir apparent (dauphin) to the throne of France.
Louis, the Grand Dauphin (le Grand Dauphin in French) (1 November 1661 - 14 April 1711) was the eldest son and heir of King Louis XIV of France and Queen Maria Theresa of Spain.
Louis' mother was Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, second wife of the Dauphin, and the daughter of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
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  Louis, the Grand Dauphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis, the Grand Dauphin (le Grand Dauphin in French) (1 November 1661 - 14 April 1711) was the eldest son and heir of King Louis XIV of France and Queen Maria Theresa of Spain.
Louis' paternal grandparents were Louis XIII of France and Anna of Austria.
Louis, Duke of Burgundy (father of Louis XV of France)
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 Louis, Grand Dauphin Information
Louis' paternal grandparents were Louis XIII of France and Anna of Austria.
Elisabeth was a younger sister of Louis XIII, while Philip IV was a brother of Anna of Austria; thus, Louis' parents were double-first-cousins to each other.
Louis was called le Grand Dauphin because he was fat, not because he was 'great'.
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 Louis XIV of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis XIV increased the power and influence of France in Europe, fighting three major wars—the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession—and two minor ones—the War of Devolution, and the War of the Reunions.
Louis XIV considered its construction one of the greatest achievements of his reign, which, along with the Chateau de Versailles, is one of the largest and most extravagant monuments in Europe, extolling a king and his country.
Thus Louis XIV's five-year-old great-grandson Louis, Duc d'Anjou, the younger son of the Duc de Bourgogne, succeeded to the throne and was to reign as Louis XV of France.
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 Louis XVI of France - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Louis XVI (August 23 1754 – January 21 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792.
Louis' father was Louis, dauphin de France (1729-1765), the only son of Louis XV who reached adulthood, and who died at age 36, while Louis XV was still alive.
Louis was nowhere near as reactionary as his right-wing brothers, the comte d'Artois and the comte de Provence, and he sent repeated messages publicly and privately calling on them to halt their attempts to launch counter-coups (often through his secretly nominated regent, former minister de Brienne).
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 Louis XV of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Louis XV had a brother, Louis, duke of Brittany (Louis, duke of Brittany: louis, duke of brittany, was born in 1707 and died in 1712 at the age of 5....
The duke of Burgundy was the eldest son of Louis, the Grand Dauphin (Louis, the Grand Dauphin: louis, the grand dauphin (le grand dauphin in french) (1661 - 1711) was the eldest...
Louis XIV (Louis XIV: King of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)) had left France in a financial mess and in a general decline.
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 Dauphin
The Dauphin was the eldest male child of the French king and heir to the throne of France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties.
This title descended in his family till 1349, when Humbert II sold his seigneurie, called the Dauphiné, to King Philippe VI on condition that the heir of France assumed the title of le Dauphin.
Dauphin[?] is also the name of a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département, in France
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 The Splendors of Versailles--Teachers' Guide Supplement
Louis’ choice for a bride was frowned upon by many at the court, but she was healthy, and expected to be quite fertile, and thus able to give Louis an heir.
Louis XV liked to regard himself as a family man, and there is general agreement that he felt a mild affection for his daughters, though not for his wife or son.
de Pompadour at a grand ball held at Versailles to celebrate the marriage of the Dauphin to the daughter of the King of Spain in 1745.
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 Louis XIV (1638-1715)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Louis was nine years old when the nobles and the Paris Parlement (a powerful law court), driven by hatred of the prime minister Cardinal Jules Mazarin, rose against the crown in 1648.
Louis XIV was not wrong, as some have claimed, to remove himself from unhealthful and tumultuous Paris, but he erred in breaking with the wandering tradition of his ancestors.
Louis XIV was the foremost example of the monarchy that brought France to its pinnacle.
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 Bourbon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Louis had two sons; the eldest founded a branch of the family that acquired through marriage the countship of Montpensier and that became extinct in 1527 with the death of Duc Charles de Bourbon, constable of France.
Louis XIII was succeeded by his son Louis XIV, whose direct descendants continued to rule France as the elder line of the house of Bourbon.
A brother of Louis XIV, Philippe I (1640-1701), duc d'Orléans, was the founder of the collateral branch of Bourbons known as the house of Orléans.
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 Louis XIV of France -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Louis increased the power of France in Europe, fighting three major wars — the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the Grand Alliance, and the War of the Spanish Succession, and two minor ones — the War of Devolution, and the War of the Reunions.
Louis considered its construction one of the greatest achievements of his reign, along with the Chateau de Versailles, which is one of the largest and most extravagant monuments in Europe, extolling a king and his country.
Thus Louis XIV's five-year-old great-grandson, the younger son of the Duc de Bourgogne, succeeded to the throne and reigned as Louis XV.
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 Louis XV of France -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Louis XV was born at Versailles on February 15, 1710, while his great-grandfather Louis XIV was still on the throne.
However, in April 1711 the Grand Dauphin died suddenly, and the Duke of Burgundy became heir to the throne.
The young Louis XV was moved to the modern lodgings attached to the medieval fortress of Vincennes, located 7 km/4.5 miles east of Paris in the Forest of Vincennes, where the air was deemed more wholesome and healthy than in Paris.
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 The Miracle Child - Louis Xv Of France
Louis XV is the king with the most ambivalent personality in the history of France.
Louis XV was born at the Palace of Versailles on February 15, 1710, while his great-grandfather Louis XIV was still on the throne.
Marie-Adélaïde was a very lively woman of whom the old king Louis XIV was very fond, and the young couple, deeply in love of each other (quite an unusual fact at the court in Versailles), had rejuvenated the court of the old king and become the center of attraction in Versailles.
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 War of the Spanish Succession: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Dauphin was the son of the Spanish princess Maria Theresa (Maria Theresa: maria theresa of spain (in french: marie thérèse) (september 10, 1638 - july...
Louis XIV was forced to negotiate; he sent his foreign minister, the Marquis de Torcy, to meet the allied commanders at The Hague (The Hague: The site of the royal residence and the de facto capital in the western part of the Netherlands; seat of the International Court of Justice).
Louis agreed to surrender Spain and all its territories to the allies, requesting only that he be allowed to keep Naples (Naples: A port and tourist center in southwestern Italy; capital of the Campania region) (in Italy).
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 Louis XIV - The Sun King
Someone also taught Louis a few of the anti-Mazarin songs that were current at this period, but most of the child's instruction was directed by men anxious to please the powerful mimister in every way possible.
Louis, called le Grand Dauphin and Monsieur (1661-1711), eldest son of Louis XIV of France and Maria-Theresa of Spain.
Louis took an interest in the education and the welfare of his son (Grand Dauphin).
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 Cedric DuPont Antiques
Nicknamed le Grand, known as the Sun Kin, son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, he reigns from 1643 to 1715.
As Louis XIV is only five years old, the Regency Council, organized by Louis XIII, includes Anne of Austria and Mazarin, his first prime.
Louis XIV ambition is to impose outside French predominance, highlighted in the long series of Wars which marked his reign.
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 Miquelon.org Stop France Bashing
Louis XIV managed to take over the Spanish crown for some time, found a brilliant way to keep all the Nobles of his kingdom very busy through warfare and his court.
Louis XV, the great-grandson of Louis XIV, born in 1710 and died in 1774.
Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVI reigned after the defeat of Napoleon from 1814 to 1815 and from 1815 to 1824.
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 Louis The Grand
Louis had too much taste to make such a solecism, but had he done so we may be sure the Court would not have minded it, and the Archbishop of Paris would have offered no objection.
She was of a deep religious cast of mind, which in that age was not deemed inconsistent with the acceptance of such pleasures as fell to ladies of high station.
The reconciling of piety and pleasure was, in truth, the consummate comedy of the reign of Louis the Grand.
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 RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - Louis XIV, King of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Louis (Le Grand Dauphin, son of Louis XIV of France)
Louis advised his son, the Dauphin, that every time he conferred a favour he should remember that nine men would be disappointed and one would be ungrateful.
Louis was so magnanimous to the exiled James II of England that he allowed James to practice the king's touch for scrofula--in France, in accordance with James' claim to the throne of France.
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 Louis XIV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
When Louis XIV came to the throne as a five-year-old boy (actually four years, eight months) on 14 May 1643, the Thirty Years' War was still in progress, and Cardinal Richelieu, the French éminent grise, had died the preceding year.
The roi du soleil (sun king) was the son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, born at the royal chateau in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1638.
Louis had married Marie Thérèse, the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain, and when her brother died, Louis claimed that his wife should inherit the Netherlands, based on the custom of "Devolution" (Property passes to the children of a first marriage in precedence of later marriages).
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 Dauphin — FactMonster.com
Dauphiné - Dauphiné Dauphiné, region and former province, SE France, bordering on Italy.
Dauphin, town, Canada - Dauphin Dauphin, town (1991 pop.
Dauphin - Dauphin The heir of the French crown under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties.
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 RoyaList Online - Royal Genealogy - Louis Bourbon, Duke of Burgundy (father of Louis XV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
When Louis was born in 1682, it was the first time in 135 years that a grandson had been born to a reigning king of France (Louis XIV).
Louis was very studious as he grew into adulthood, and read the Abbe de Choisy's life of Charles V several times.
Louis was very fond of tennis, and his critics noted that he spent more time playing tennis during his term as a soldier than on military matters.
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 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 00069800
Louis XIV's son and heir, Louis the Grand Dauphin, inherited more than his fair share of the family eccentricity and could have been even stranger had he lived longer (his Habsburg maternal grandfather, Philip IV of Spain, didn't develop a taste for human breast milk until well into his dotage).
Louis XIV let it be known that his new daughter-in-law was to be admired: her nose was never mentioned again.
As Louis XVIII was homosexual, impotent and preoccupied with the consumption of food to the exclusion of almost everything else, their bedrooms occupied separate floors.
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 Beaujolais-Villages Blanc, Château des Jacques
Maison Louis Jadot was the first Burgundian firm to introduce Beaujolais Blanc to the United States, and remains among a very few who produce it.
In November 1996, Maison Louis Jadot acquired the Château des Jacques, a spectacular 67 acre estate in Moulin-à-Vent.
The Grand Clos de Loyse, a separate 22 acre domaine incorporated into the Château des Jacques’ holdings in 1943, lies to the north in the communes of la Chapelle de Guinchay and Saône-et-Loire at the border with the Mâconnais, and is planted to Chardonnay.
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 Untitled
He was the son of Louis XIII, but at his father's death he was too young to rule since he was only 4 years old.
In 1774, Louis XVI was crowned King of France.
Louis XVII, son of Louis XVI, crowned in 1793 by his family died soon after in 1795.
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 Château de Versailles
Louis XIV rêve de construire un palais qui marque son époque.
Louis XIV souhaite naturellement protéger la personne royale et le gouvernement des humeurs de la foule parisienne.
Le Roi Louis XIV fait construire par Jules Hardouin-Mansart, au fond du parc, un petit palais qui porte le nom de Trianon.
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 Le Grand Trianon
Louis XIV fera raser le village de Trianon afin d'y construire "une maison à aller faire des collations".
Louis XIV y logera sa belle-soeur, la princesse Palatine, son gendre, le duc de Chartres, sa fille, la duchesse de Bourbon.
Louis XIV souhaitera construire le plus beau parc jamais réalisé au monde.
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 Meudon History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
However it was not until the time of Louis XIV that the Meudon site again became particularly important, because of its strategic position midway between Paris and the new headquarters of Royal Government at Versailles.
Major construction work on the plateau came to an end under the Dauphin's descendant, Louis XV, who (under the influence of his effective minister of culture, Madame de Pompadour) preferred the cosier downhill Chateau de Bellevue (now a scientific campus of the CNRS) and who used the upper Meudon parc mainly for hunting.
Louis XVI was informed of the fall of the Bastille that signalled the doom of his entire dynasty.
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 Louis Tocque Online
Portrait of Louis, Grand Dauphin of France, 1739
Louis Tocque in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
All images and text on this Louis Tocque page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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