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	Louis XV of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis XV (February 15, 1710 – May 10, 1774), called the Well-Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1715 to 1774.
		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.
		King Louis XV died of smallpox at the Palace of Versailles.
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	Louis XV of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis XV (February 15, 1710 – May 10, 1774), called the Well-Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1715 to 1774.
		Louis XV is the king with the most ambivalent personality in the history of France.
		Louis XV was born at Versailles on February 15, 1710, while his great-grandfather Louis XIV was still on the throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_XV_of_France (7364 words)

	Personalities of Louisiana: Louis XV
		Louis XV Louis is born, the son of the Duc de Barry.
		Louis XIV declares the illegitimate sons of Montespan to be in line for dynastic succession, but a legitimate heir is the Duc de Barry who dies this year leaving his four-year-old son as the sole legitimate heir.
		Louis XIV dies in the palace at Versailles.
	www.enlou.com /people/louisxv-bio.htm (2394 words)

	Louis XV style furniture
		Louis XIV style was a French adaptation of baroque (see Baroque Art and Architecture), emphasizing formal grandeur and lush ostentation, which existed during the monarch's reign, from 1643 to 1715.
		Louis XV The Louis XV [Louis Quinze] (1723–74) style was characterized by free curves and the use of rococo ornament and chinoiserie.
		Louis XVI The restraint of the later Louis XV style presaged the strong reaction of the Louis XVI [Louis Seize] (1774–93) period, during which simplicity replaced excess and the classic revival influenced decorative motifs and brought a return to straight lines and symmetry.
	www.restorations.net /louisxv/louisxv.htm (884 words)

	MSN Encarta - Louis XV
		Louis XV (1710-74), king of France (1715-74), whose failure to provide strong leadership and badly needed reforms contributed to the crisis that brought on the French Revolution.
		Louis was born at Versailles on February 15, 1710, the great-grandson of Louis XIV, whom he succeeded at the age of five.
		Louis XV's reported prophecy, “After me, the deluge,” was fulfilled in the overthrow of the French monarchy less than two decades later.
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	LOUIS XV. OF FRANCE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS XV. OF FRANCE
		Louis was singularly well fitted by his physical and intellectual gifts for the role of Grand Monarque and he played it to perfection.
		Louis was thus unexpectedly brought into the line of the succession, and was only five years old when Louis XIV.
		The marquis d'Argenson writes that at the council table Louis " opened his mouth, said little and thought not at all," and again that " under the appearance of personal monarchy it was really anarchy that reigned." He had followed too in his domestic life the example of his predecessors.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LO/LOUIS_XV_OF_FRANCE.htm (2847 words)

	Louis, XV Biography / Biography of Louis, XV Biography Biography
		Louis XV (1710-1774) was king of France from 1715 to 1774.
		In 1725 Louis XV was married to Marie Leszczynska, daughter of a claimant to the Polish throne.
		Although Louis XV recognized the need for internal reforms, particularly of the inequitable system of taxation, until the end of his reign he failed to back up his reforming ministers against opposition from the court and coalitions of all those threatened by change.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-louis-xv (589 words)

	Louis XV, king of France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		1710–74, king of France (1715–74), great-grandson and successor of King Louis XIV, son of Louis, titular duke of Burgundy, and Marie Adelaide of Savoy.
		Louis, however, lacked both the will and interest to govern forcefully, and his reign was influenced by a succession of favorites.
		The domestic abuses of Louis XIV’s rule and the disastrous financial policy of the regency were partly liquidated by Fleury, but the extravagances of Louis XV’s court, the expense of warfare, and the defeat of attempts at reform left the monarchy weak by the time of the king’s death.
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/Louis15Fr.html (501 words)

	Timeline of King Louis XVI
		He was the grandson of Louis XV and married Marie Antoinette.
		She was the daughter of Maria Theresa and Francis I; and wife of Louis XVI in 1770 and thus Queen of France.
		Louis XVI, condemned for treason, was executed on the guillotine.
	www.geocities.com /frenchmonarch/louisxvi/timeline.html (828 words)

	Louis XV of France
		Louis XV (February 15, 1710 - May 10, 1774) was king of France from 1715-74.
		The son of Louis, Duke of Burgundy and Marie-Adélaide of Savoy, and great-grandson of King Louis XIV, Louis was part of the Bourbon Dynasty.
		During Louis' reign Corsica and Lorraine were won, but a few years later, King Louis XV lost the huge colonial empire as a result of the Seven Years' War with Great Britain.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/l/lo/louis_xv_of_france.shtml (662 words)

	Louis XV
		Louis, who became king at age five and was dubbed the Well-Beloved early in his reign, was handsome, majestic, and intelligent.
		At age fifteen, Louis XV married Maria Leszczinska, daughter of the king of Poland.
		France and Austria having settled their differences seven years earlier, in 1770 the heir to the French throne, Louis XV's grandson, LOUIS XVI married the Austrian archduchess, sealing an alliance that certain people still felt was unnatural.
	www.geocities.com /daniellla.geo/LOUISXV.html (705 words)

	King Louis XVI Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Married to Marie Antoinette in 1770, Louis was influenced by a variety of sources.
		In an effort to save his own life and that of his family, Louis and the royal family attempted to flee the country but were caught and promptly returned to Paris.
		Shortly after, it was discovered that Louis had been bribing French officials and was tried for treason where he was found guilty and sentenced to death.
	www.geocities.com /frenchmonarch/louisxvi (172 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Louis XIV
		Louis XIV claimed, in 1673 and again in 1675, that the right of régale was his in all bishoprics of the kingdom.
		Louis, on 14 September, 1693, declared that, to show his veneration for the pope, he ordered the declaration of 1682 to be held without effect in regard to religious policy.
		Lastly, at the end of his reign, Louis ordered a new inquiry into the causes and the persistence of the heresy, and decreed, by the declaration of 8 March, 1715, that all Protestants who had continued to reside in the kingdom since 1685 were liable to the penalties of relapsed heretics unless they became Catholics.
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	LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		(A. (1754-1793), king of France, was the son of Louis, dauphin of France, the son of Louis XV., and of Marie Joseph of Saxony, and was born at Versailles on the 23rd of August 1754, being baptized as Louis Augustus.
		His father's death in 1765 made him heir to the throne, and in 1770 he was married to Marie Antoinette, daughter of the empress Maria Theresa.
		Having lost his elder son in 1789 Louis left two children, Louis Charles, usually known as Louis XVII., and Marie Th6rese Charlotte (1778-1851), who married her cousin, Louis, duke of Angoule'me, son of Charles X., in 1799.
	73.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LO/LOUIS_XVI_OF_FRANCE.htm (2783 words)

	Louis XV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Louis XV was the great grandson of Louis XIV whom he succeeded at the age of five.
		In the last years of his reign, Louis participated with his chancellor in an effort to reform the country's unjustified and impractical system of taxation.
		When Louis died he left the country in an even bigger debt from all of the wars France participated in during his reign.
	www.angelfire.com /va/frenchrev/LouisXV.html (178 words)

	The reign of Louis XV (1723-1774) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		On the death of the regent, Louis XV acceded to the throne.
		In 1730, the clergy refused Christian burial to the famous actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, whose body was thrown on the city dump.
		Louis XV governed by himself between 1743 and 1758.
	www.culture.gouv.fr /lumiere/documents/files/regne_LouisXV.html (266 words)

	Louis XV of France - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Louis XV (February 15, 1710 - May 10, 1774) was king of France from 1715 until 1774.
		During Louis' reign Corsica and Lorraine were won, but a few years later, King Louis XV lost the huge colonial empire as a result of the Seven Years' War with England.
		Because Louis XV's son the dauphin had died nine years earlier, Louis's grandson ascended to the throne as King Louis XVI.
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	Louis XV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Louis XV Louis XV The great grandson of Louis XIV, Louis XV was a king of France who contributed to the decline of royal authority.
		Louis was born at Versailles, France, in 1710.
		In 1725, Louis married Maria Leszczynska, daughter of Stanislas I, the exiled king of Poland.
	www.udel.edu /karenk/webct/louisxv.html (297 words)

	The Bourbons
		The son of Louis XIV died in 1711, the duke of Burgundy in 1712, the duke of Berry in 1714, and the only surviving legitimate descendant succeeded as Louis XV.
		Anjou continued to be the traditional title for younger sons of France: it was bestowed later in 1710 to the third son of the duc de Bourgogne (later Louis XV), and in 1730 to the second son of Louis XV (died in 1733).
		That title was the first one born by Robert, younger son of Louis IX and founder of the Bourbon branch, and was the usual title of the eldest son of the duc de Bourbon in the 14th and 15th c.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/bourbon.htm (3422 words)

	The Execution of Louis XVI, 1793
		Louis XVI, king of France, arrived in the wrong historical place at the wrong time and soon found himself overwhelmed by events beyond his control.
		Ascending the throne in 1774, Louis inherited a realm driven nearly bankrupt through the opulence of his predecessors Louis XIV and XV.
		The carriage proceeded thus in silence to the Place de Louis XV, and stopped in the middle of a large space that had been left round the scaffold: this space was surrounded with cannon, and beyond, an armed multitude extended as far as the eye could reach.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /louis.htm (798 words)

	Louis XV on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		1710-74, king of France (1715-74), great-grandson and successor of King Louis XIV, son of Louis, titular duke of Burgundy, and Marie Adelaide of Savoy.
		Alain Ducasse dans la cuisine de son restaurant Louis XV à Monte-Carlo, en 1994 Le Louis XV à Monaco, un des fleurons d'Al.
		Stanislas leszczynski statue erected in 1831 on the place where Louis XV effigy has been destroyed during the revolution.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Louis15F1r.asp (433 words)

	Madame de Pompadour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Louis XV had a tendency to always be bored and Madame de Pompadour knew how to keep him entertained.
		Louis had a large white angora cat and Mme de Pompadour had a small dog that was always by her side.
		Louis informed her that this was a bad idea because there were too many writers.
	www.visitvoltaire.com /v_pompadour.htm (483 words)

	Louis XV style -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The predominant style in architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts was Neoclassicism, a style that had come into its own during the last years of Louis XV's life, chiefly as a reaction to the excesses...
		Fostered by the court of the French king Louis XV, whose life-style was far less formal than that of his...
		Known in France as the Louis XV style, the rococo rejected the heaviness, symmetry, and Classical reference of the baroque in favor of the lighter, freer, more naturalistic mode of expression found, for example, in the drawings of Juste-Aurèle Meissonier.
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	Louis XV and Louis XVI Furniture - 1Earth Antiques and Appraisals Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		During the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI, a deluge of furniture was produced by Parisian and Provincial ébénistes (artisans specializing in veneered furniture) and menuisiers (artisans specializing in carved furniture).
		Back on earth, a simpler piece of servants' quarters furniture, even with a palace stamp, might go as for as little as a few thousand dollars, and a single small Provincial chair or miniature commode can be found for under $1,000.
		Not only do they cost nearly as much as an original Louis XV or XVI piece, but they lack that certain je ne sais quoi that only time and history can bestow.
	www.1earth.com.au /collect/louis_xv_furniture.html (1027 words)

	Madame de Pompadour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		She was installed at court as Louis the fifteenth's official favorite under the title of Marquis de Pompadour in 1744.
		Bernier attempts to show Louis XV as an honorable King, and one of the greatest rulers of this regime.
		Gooch, G.P. Louis XV: The Monarchy in Decline.
	www.kings.edu /womens_history/pompadou.html (3583 words)

	Louis XV (from Louis, kings of France) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The luxurious court of Louis XIV was continued under Louis XV.
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		Narrative composed by Abbot Suger, minister to Louis VI, recounting the king’s effort to consolidate and strengthen the power of the French monarchy in the early 12th century.
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