** Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

** Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1792 )

** Louis IV ( 1715 – 1774 )

** Louis V ( 1774 – 1792 )

* Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1793 )

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

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

** Louis XVI, 1774 – 1792

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.

* 1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.

* February 15 – King Louis XV of France ( d. 1774 )

Turgot was to be an administrator under King Louis XV in 1772, and became Controller-General of Finance under Louis XVI in 1774.

King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

Maria, his wife, died in 1768 and Louis himself died on 10 May 1774.

* Louis XV, the Well-Beloved ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1792 )

Marie Antoinette assumed the title of Queen of France and of Navarre when her husband, Louis XVI of France, ascended the throne upon the death of Louis XV in May 1774.

On 27 April 1774, a week after the première of Gluck's opera, Iphigénie en Aulide, which had secured the Dauphine's position as a patron of the arts, Louis XV fell ill with smallpox.

She was given free rein to renovate the Petit Trianon, a small château on the grounds of Versailles, which was given to her as a gift by Louis XVI on 15 August 1774 ; she concentrated mainly on horticulture, redesigning the garden in the English fashion, which in the previous reign had been an arboretum of introduced species, and adding flowers.

The strict and conservative education he received from the Duc de La Vauguyon, " gouverneur des Enfants de France " ( governor of the Children of France ), from 1760 until his marriage in 1770, did not prepare him for the throne that he was to inherit in 1774 after the death of his grandfather, Louis XV.

When Louis XVI succeeded to the throne in 1774, he was 19 years old.

French Politics, 1774 – 1789: From the Accession of Louis XVI to the Fall of the Bastille.

He was succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI in 1774.

In the 18th century, before the French Revolution ( 1789 – 99 ), in the French feudal order, the masculine and feminine terms bourgeois and bourgeoise identified the rich men and women who were members of the urban and rural Third Estate — the common people of the French realm, who violently deposed the absolute monarchy of the Bourbon King Louis XVI ( r. 1774 – 91 ), his clergy, and his aristocrats.

Louis XVI granted Louis Stanislas revenues from the Duchy of Alençon in December 1774.

He served as Foreign Minister from 1774 during the reign of Louis XVI, notably during the American War of Independence.

With the accession of King Louis XVI in 1774, Vergennes became foreign minister.

Louis XVI of France | Louis XVI, who reigned from 1774 to 1792.

Only when the plump, young king acceded to the throne in 1774 did his fashion-loving Queen bring the " Louis XVI " style to court.

He was then removed to Caen, where he remained in detention until the accession of Louis XVI in 1774.

A member of the progressive Scottish Rite Masonic lodge at Chambéry from 1774 to 1790, Maistre originally favoured political reform in France, supporting the efforts of the magistrates in the Parlements to force King Louis XVI to convene the Estates General.

Louis was further given the Duchy of Alençon by his brother Louis XVI in 1774.

To this was added in 1774 by his brother, Louis XVI the Marquisate of Pompadour and the Vicomté of Turenne.

When Louis XVI became king in 1774, Philippe was still suspected of anti-royalist sentiment in the eyes of the court.

Extravagant expenditures on luxuries by Louis XVI, whose rule began in 1774, were compounded by debts that were run up during the reign of his even-more-profligate predecessor, Louis XV ( who reigned from 1715 to 1774 ).

In 1774 he mounted the Crammont, and again in 1778, in which year he also explored the Valsorey glacier, near the Great St Bernard in 1776 he had ascended the Buet ( 3, 096m ).

In 1774, he accompanied his sister Madame Clotilde to Chambéry, on the journey to meet her bridegroom Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont, heir to the throne of Sardinia.

For over seventy years, from 1701 to 1774, the title had no living representatives in the French court, as Philippe of France, died in 1701 and Louis XV was the youngest of the sons of Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy and at the time of ascension to the throne in 1715 had no brothers.

However, he was again not welcome at court when Louis ' grandson, Louis XVI, succeeded to the throne in 1774.

So paranoid was he that in December 1774, he ordered the execution of the last Hanthawaddy king, Binnya Dala, who had been in captivity since May 1757 because the Mon rebels had tried to free the former king to put him on the throne.

His eldest surviving son, Louis-Auguste, duc de Berry, became the new dauphin, ascending the throne as Louis XVI at the death of Louis XV, in May 1774.

* Archduchess Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna of Austria, Marie Antoinette was the dauphine until her husband succeeded to the throne in 1774 as Louis XVI.

In 1774, the King arranged the marriage between his brother, the future Charles XIII of Sweden and Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp to solve, for the time being, the immediate question of an heir to the throne.

Only when the young king acceded to the throne in 1774 did Marie Antoinette, his fashion-loving Queen, bring the " Louis XVI " style to court.