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Louis XV, known as Louis the Beloved, was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the king took sole c…
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politics · King of France from 1715 to 1774 · art collector · monarch · also Louis XV of France, Louis XV, Louis the Well beloved, Louis the Beloved, Louis le bien aimé, France
Born 15 February 1710 · Died 10 May 1774 · Q7738
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“I hope your Majesty will not withdraw your favour from me; but if I had the misfortune to lose it, I should be more to be pitied than anybody, for I have no asylum in which to hide my head.”
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“It will be very curious to know what the result will be, and if their execution doesn”
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“It is in my person alone that sovereign power resides...To me alone belongs the legislative power, without dependence and without sharing...The public order emanates entirely from me...Confusion and anarchy are taking the place of legitimate order, and the scandalous spectacle of a contradictory rivaling my sovereign power reduces me to the sad necessity to use all the power that I received from God to preserve my peoples from the sad consequences of these enterprises.”
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“In these circumstances, I don”
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BBC: France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
The Guardian: ‘Wheeling through vineyards and chateaux country’: an ebike tour of France’s Loire valley
Those of the guillotined monarchs, exactly one year after the others), and were buried in the Ossuary near the Bourbon crypt, since individual identification was impossible—and there they remain to this day
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Died 1774-05-10.
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Won Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1739).
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Career landmark: King of France and Navarre (1715–1774).
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Born 1710-02-15.
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It is in my person alone that sovereign power resides...To me alone belongs the legislative power, without dependence and without sharing...The public order emanates entirely from me...Confusion and anarchy are taking the place of legitimate order, and the scandalous spectacle of a contradictory rivaling my sovereign power reduces me to the sad necessity to use all the power that I received from God to preserve my peoples from the sad consequences of these enterprises.
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