Page "Louis XV of France" Paragraph 84

Historian Colin Jones argues that Louis XV left France with serious financial difficulties: " The military disasters of the Seven Years War led to acute state financial crisis .".

Ultimately, he writes, Louis XV failed to overcome these fiscal problems, mainly because he was incapable of putting together conflicting parties and interests in his entourage.

Worse, Louis seemed to be aware of the forces of anti-monarchism threatening his family's rule and yet failed to do anything to stop them.