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Louis XV was weak ; his wife and children were in favor of the Jesuits ; his able first minister, the Duc de Choiseul, played into the hands of the Parlement, and the royal mistress, Madame de Pompadour, to whom the Jesuits had refused absolution, for she was living in sin with the King of France, was a determined opponent.
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Louis and XV
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.
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon ( 2002 ) excerpt and text search
** 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 and was
Zing was the creation of two men, Louis Thor and Bill Blake, partners in zing!!
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.
He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.
Now, when everything was opening up to him -- even the court of Louis 15!!
Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.
Mankowski, the ball-hawking defensive expert, was cited for his performance against Bradley in St. Louis U.'s nationally televised victory.
St. Louis U. was to be in action again today with a game scheduled at 4 against Washington University at Ligget Field.
It was during `` Old Music '' at the St. James Theater that Hollywood's Louis B. Mayer spotted her.
The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress, who was considered the most powerful woman in France at the time.
Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz ( December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910 ), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.
Joan II and Louis III again took possession of the realm, although the true power was in the hands of Gianni Caracciolo.
Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.
Andrew, who was now with Saint Louis, interpreted David's message to the King, a real or pretended offer of alliance from the Mongol general Eljigidei, and a proposal of a joint attack upon the Islamic powers of Syria.
Agnes was a daughter of King Louis VII of France and his third wife Adèle of Champagne.
Antibiosis was first described in 1877 in bacteria when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch observed that an airborne bacillus could inhibit the growth of Bacillus anthracis.
Louis and weak
The only forces immediately available for Vienna's defence were Prince Louis of Baden's force of 36, 000 stationed in the Lines of Stollhofen to watch Marshal Tallard at Strasbourg ; there was also a weak force of 10, 000 men under Field Marshal Count Limburg Styrum observing Ulm.
Louis was a weak and ineffectual military leader with no skill for maintaining troop discipline or morale, or of making informed and logical tactical decisions.
" James Wierzbicki for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described Adams's score as the weak point in an otherwise well-staged performance, noting the music as " inappropriately placid ," " cliché-ridden in the abstract " and " heavily in Adams's worn-out Minimalist clichés.
Louis the Stammerer was physically weak and died two years later, his realm being divided between his eldest two sons: Louis III gaining Neustria and Francia, and Carloman gaining Aquitaine and Burgundy.
He used the weak position of Charles to force him into the Triple Alliance of 1668 which again forced Louis to temporarily abandon his plans for the conquest of the Southern Netherlands.
Louis was of a weak personal constitution, often sick, and with his young age, the reins of government were entirely in the hands of others, the nobles and bishops.
Had the Papacy been a neutral party, Joan would likely have won, for Louis ' case was exceedingly weak.
Louis Fisher, a constitutional scholar at the Library of Congress indicated: " The administration would be on weak grounds in court because they would be insisting on what the Framers decidedly rejected: an absolute veto.
However, Louis XIV had furnished Tourville with strict orders to seek battle, strong or weak ( fort au faible ), and this he proceeded to do.
After a 3 – 1 win over the California Golden Seals on December 28, they stood just one point behind the St. Louis Blues and a playoff position in the weak Smythe Division.
McCarthy, who had no evidence of specific acts of espionage and only weak evidence that Lattimore was a concealed Communist, in April 1950 persuaded Louis F. Budenz, the now-anticommunist former editor of the Communist Party organ Daily Worker, to testify.
Louis the Pious was rather weak, and fight started between the three sons on one side, and their father and his new wife on the other side, which eventually would lead to the total collapse of the Frankish empire.
The basic aim of Louis ' foreign policy was to give France more easily defensible borders, and to eliminate weak spots ( Strassburg had often been used by the Habsburgs as a gateway into France ).
" " The combination of frequent change and weak appointees Bridgeman and Prince Louis of Battenberg | Battenberg ensured that the professional leadership of the Royal Navy lost its direction in the four years preceding the war.
Had the Pope been a neutral party, Joan would likely have won, for Louis ' case was exceedingly weak.
Attached to the household of Gaston, Duke of Orléans, brother of Louis XIII, he gained a complete ascendancy over the weak prince by pandering to his pleasures, and became his adviser in the intrigues against Cardinal Richelieu.
One of his most cited and celebrated results regards the Partial regularity of suitable weak solutions of the Navier – Stokes equations, obtained in 1982 in collaboration with Louis Nirenberg and Robert V. Kohn.
The bitter feeling against them was in part augmented by the fact that the baptized Emerich Szerencsés, the deputy treasurer, embezzled the public funds, following the example of the nobles who despoiled the treasury under the weak Louis.
A dynamic biographical novel of Louis XI and his struggle to create a mighty nation from a weak medieval France.
Then he entered the service of various condottieri, beginning with Braccio da Montone, who was skirmishing in Apulia, profiting from the struggles between Alfonso of Aragon and Louis of Anjou during the weak sovereignty of Queen Joan II by taking Alfonso's cause, and then of Carmagnola.
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