Characterized by elegant and refined yet playful subject matters, Boucher's style became the epitome of the court of Louis XV.

* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )

Busembaum's Medulla had been burnt in Toulouse in 1757 because of its justification of regicide, deemed particularly scandalous after Damiens ' assassination attempt against Louis XV.

** Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre.

In 1752 Chardin was granted a pension of 500 livres by Louis XV.

Despite his unconventional portrayal of the ascendant bourgeoisie, early support came from patrons in the French aristocracy, including Louis XV.

* 1685 – Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France ( d. 1712 )

In the Renaissance period the Italian doors are quite simple, their architects trusting more to the doorways for effect ; but in France and Germany the contrary is the case, the doors being elaborately carved, especially in the Louis XIV and Louis XV periods, and sometimes with architectural features such as columns and entablatures with pediment and niches, the doorway being in plain masonry.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

* 1710 – King Louis XV of France ( d. 1774 )

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

The former Louis XVI, now simply named Citoyen Louis Capet ( Citizen Louis Capet ), was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 on the Place de la Révolution, former Place Louis XV, now called the Place de la Concorde.

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** Louis XV the Beloved and his minister Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, 1715 – 1774

Louis XIV died in 1715 and was succeeded by his five-year-old great grandson who reigned as Louis XV until his death in 1774.

Execution of Louis XVI in what is now the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, had stood.

** Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 )

** Louis III ( 1643 – 1715 )

** Louis IV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 )

Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) strongly promoted the theory as well.

** Louis XIV the Sun King and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1643 – 1715

Louis XIV, known as the " Sun King ", reigned over France from 1643 until 1715 although his strongest period of personal rule did not begin until 1661 after the death of his Italian chief minister Cardinal Mazarin.

Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643 – 1715.

Alexander VII's pontificate was shadowed by continual friction with Cardinal Mazarin, adviser to Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ), who had opposed him during the negotiations that led to the Peace of Westphalia and who defended the prerogatives of the Gallican Church.

The ambassador of Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) succeeded in procuring his election on 6 October 1689, as successor to Pope Innocent XI ( 1676 – 89 ); nevertheless, after months of negotiation Alexander VIII finally condemned the declaration made in 1682 by the French clergy concerning the liberties of the Gallican church.

He laboured to preserve the peace of Europe even though he was menaced by the ambition of Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ), an imperious monarch over ecclesiastical matters ( the struggle concerned the régale, or revenues of vacant dioceses and abbeys, which resulted in continued tension with France ).

Though a congregation of bishops assembled at Paris in December 1761 recommended no action, Louis XV of France ( 1715 – 74 ) promulgated a royal order permitting the Society to remain in the kingdom, with the proviso that certain essentially liberalising changes in their institution satisfy the Parlement with a French Jesuit vicar-general who should be independent of the general in Rome.

King Louis XV of France's ( 1715 – 74 ) minister, the duc de Choiseul, had former experience of Rome as French ambassador, and was Europe's most skilled diplomat.

After Pope Clement X ( 1670 – 76 ) died, Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) again intended to use his royal influence against Odescalchi's election.

* 1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years – the longest of any major European monarch.

* 1638 – Louis XIV of France ( d. 1715 )

From May 1682, when Louis XIV moved the court and government permanently to Versailles, until his death in September 1715, Versailles was the unofficial capital of the kingdom of France.

Philip quickly revived Spanish ambition ; taking advantage of the power vacuum caused by Louis XIV's death in 1715, Philip announced he would claim the French crown if the infant Louis XV died and attempted to reclaim Spanish territory in Italy, precipitating the War of the Quadruple Alliance in 1717.

King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ), by Hyacinthe Rigaud ( 1701 )

* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )

* 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.

* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player

* 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.

* 1717 – Louis François, Prince of Conti ( d. 1776 )

* 1764 – Louis Baraguey d ' Hilliers, French general ( d. 1816 )

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 881 – Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

* 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver ( d. 1979 )

In the Battle of Abensberg on 19 – 20 April 1809, Napoleon gained a significant victory over the Austrians under Archduke Louis of Austria and General Johann von Hiller.

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist ( d. 1972 )

* 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer

* 778 – Louis the Pious ( d. 840 )

* 1672 – Franco-Dutch War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands.

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1712 )

* 1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.

* 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift " free to the world ".