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Louis XV (1710 – 1774), known as Louis the Beloved, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity in 1723, his kingdom was ruled by Philippe d’Orléans, Duke of Orléans as Regent of France (his maternal ...
Louis XVI, (born Aug. 23, 1754, Versailles, France—died Jan. 21, 1793, Paris), Last king of France (1774–92) in the Bourbon line preceding the French Revolution. In 1770 he married Marie-Antoinette , and in 1774 he succeeded to the throne on the death of his grandfather, Louis XV .
Louis XV demonstrated his new-found determination by exiling Beaumont, while simultaneously petitioning Benedict XIV for an encyclical clarifying the status of Unigenitus. It might therefore be assumed that the law of silence marked a turning point in Louis XV's treatment of the parlement.
Louis, Dauphin of France [1] (Louis Ferdinand; 4 September 1729 – 20 December 1765) was the elder and only surviving son of King Louis XV of France and his wife, Queen Marie Leszczyńska. As a son of the king, Louis was a fils de France. As heir apparent, he became Dauphin of France. Although he died before ascending to the throne himself ...
May 28, 2024 · Louis XVI (born August 23, 1754, Versailles, France—died January 21, 1793, Paris) was the last king of France (1774–92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. The monarchy was abolished on September 21, 1792; later Louis and his queen consort, Marie-Antoinette, were guillotined on charges of counterrevolution.
One of the major building projects in Paris of Louis XV and his successor, Louis XVI, was the new church of Sainte Geneviève on top of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève on the Left Bank, the future Panthéon. The plans were approved by the king in 1757 and work continued until the French Revolution. Louis XV also built an elegant new military ...
Louis XV era chairs. Louis XV chairs are light, comfortable, and enveloping. Their lightness is due to the removal of the cross stretcher: this term designates the stretcher in an H or en X configuration that linked the legs of seventeenth-century fauteuils. Henceforth, this element, was only used for certain cane chairs and straw-bottomed chairs.
