de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress, who was considered the most powerful woman in France at the time.

Louis XV's ministers could not permit such an abrogation of French law, and the King finally expelled the Jesuits in November 1764.

In 1835 the Dictionary of the French Academy stated that the word Rococo " usually covers the kind of ornament, style and design associated with Louis XV's reign and the beginning of that of Louis XVI ".

The delicacy and playfulness of Rococo designs is often seen as perfectly in tune with the excesses of Louis XV's reign.

This project, which lacked neither ability nor audacity, foundered upon Louis XV's invincible jealousy of the growth of Russian influence in eastern Europe and his fear of offending the Porte.

She met the King, the Dauphin Louis-Auguste, and the royal aunts ( Louis XV's daughters, known as Mesdames ), one week later.

Louis XV's daughters, Mesdames, hated Mme du Barry due to her unsavory relationship with their father.

Although the Petit Trianon had been built for Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, it became associated with Marie Antoinette's perceived extravagance.

Some scholars believe Louis XV's decisions damaged the power of France, weakened the treasury, discredited the absolute monarchy, and may have led to the French Revolution which broke out 15 years after his death Other scholars argue that this reputation is based on propaganda meant to justify the French Revolution, and, by dismissing the Parlement de Paris and reforming the tax code, Louis set France on a path of stability late in his reign.

In April 1711, Louis Le Grand Dauphin suddenly died, making Louis XV's father Burgundy the new dauphin.

With these successes, Louis XV's prestige reached its highest point.

Legend later enormously exaggerated the events occurring at the Parc-aux-Cerfs, contributing to the dark reputation still associated with Louis XV's name today.

Since Louis XV's son, Louis, the dauphin, had died nine years earlier, the throne passed to his grandson, the conventional and unimaginative Louis XVI.

Two of Louis XV's other grandchildren, Louis XVIII and Charles X, would occupy the throne of France after the fall of Napoleon I.

Another author, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret, writes that Louis XV's tarnished reputation was created fifteen years after his death, to justify the French Revolution, and that the nobility during his reign were competent.

* Chartrand, Rene ; " Louis XV's Army – Foreign Infantry "; Osprey 1997.

Eventually he became the protégé of Dr. François Quesnay, the personal physician of Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour.

Its capital was named " la Nouvelle-Orléans " in honour of Louis XV's regent, the duke of Orléans, and was settled with French inhabitants against the threat from British troops to the north-east.

Franco-Spanish relations only recovered in 1743 when Louis XV's son Louis de France married Mariana Victoria's sister Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain.

Upon the death of Louis XIV and the abandonment of Versailles, the Paris high society became the purveyors of style.

Alfonso tried to regain the favour of the queen, but failed, and had to wait for the death of both Louis ( at Cosenza in 1434 ) and Joan herself ( February 1435 ).

In 1252, on the death of his mother, Blanche of Castile, Alphonse was joint regent with Charles of Anjou until the return of Louis IX.

On Arnulf's death in 899, he was succeeded as a king of the East Franks by his son by his wife Ota ( died 903 ), Louis the Child.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

* The 20th-century Irish poet Louis MacNeice references Catullus in his poem " Epitaph for Liberal Poets ," where he mentions Catullus as amongst the first liberal poets-" Catullus / went down young ," mentioning him in the context of the death of the individual and recognising his and the universal plight.

Gauss's personal life was overshadowed by the early death of his first wife, Johanna Osthoff, in 1809, soon followed by the death of one child, Louis.

The Carolingian dynasty ceased to rule France upon the death of Louis V. After the death of Louis V, the son of Hugh the Great, Hugh Capet, was elected by the nobility as king of France.

Louis was proclaimed king on Casimir's death in 1370, and Casimir's sister Elisabeth ( Louis's mother ) held much of the real power until her death in 1380.

The National Convention held the trial of Louis XVI and David voted for the death of the King, causing his wife, a royalist, to divorce him.

On the Bourbons returning to power, David figured in the list of proscribed former revolutionaries and Bonapartists — for having voted execution for the deposed King Louis XVI ; and for participating in the death of Louis XVII.

David sent many people to the guillotine and personally signed the death warrants for King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

In 814, on Charlemagne's death his son Louis the Pious made Einhard his private secretary.

The gladiatorial fight to the death scene between Snake and Slag ( played by professional wrestler Ox Baker ) was filmed in the Grand Hall at St. Louis Union Station.

The Duke also insisted to his companions that his death be kept a secret until Louis was informed – the men were to journey from Saint James across the Pyrenees as quickly as possible, to call at Bordeaux to notify the Archbishop, and then to make all speed to Paris, to inform the King.

To his concerns regarding his new heir, Louis, who had been destined for the monastic life of a younger son ( the former heir, Philip, having died from a riding accident ), was added joy over the death of one of his most powerful vassals – and the availability of the best duchy in France.

His second son acquired the courtesy title Lord Louis Mountbatten and was known as Lord Louis informally until his death.

** 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 )

In 1774 Louis XVI ascended to the throne of France at age 20.

** 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.