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Roy Louis de France, XV, 'the well beloved'

Male 1710 - 1774  (64 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Louis de France 
    Prefix Roy 
    Suffix XV, 'the well beloved' 
    Birth 15 Feb 1710  Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 10 May 1774  Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 2 Siblings 
    Person ID I5727  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 9 Oct 2002 

    Father Duc Louis de Bourgogne,   b. 6 Aug 1682, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Feb 1712, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Mother Marie Adelaide di Savoya,   b. 6 Dec 1685, Turino, Italia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Feb 1712, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years) 
    Marriage 7 Dec 1697  Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2473  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Marie Charlotte Sofia Leszczynska,   b. 23 Jun 1703, Poznan, Polska Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jun 1768, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Marriage 5 Sep 1725  Fontainebleau, Seine et Marne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Louise Elisabeth de France,   b. 14 Aug 1727, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Dec 1759, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)
     2. Anne Henriette de France,   b. 1727   d. 1752 (Age 25 years)
     3. Marie Louise de France,   b. 1729   d. 1733 (Age 4 years)
    +4. Dauphin Louis de France,   b. 4 Sep 1729, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Dec 1765, Fontainebleau, Seine et Marne, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
     5. Philippe Louis de France,   b. 1730   d. 1733 (Age 3 years)
     6. Marie Adelaide de France,   b. 1732   d. 1800 (Age 68 years)
     7. Victoire de France,   b. 1733   d. 1799 (Age 66 years)
     8. Sophie de France,   b. 1734   d. 1782 (Age 48 years)
     9. Thérèse Félicité de France,   b. 1736   d. 1744 (Age 8 years)
     10. Louise de France,   b. 1737   d. 1787 (Age 50 years)
    Family ID F2474  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 2 Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle   d. 1741 
    Children 
    +1. Marquis Charles Emmanuel de Vintimille,   b. 2 Sep 1741   d. 14 Feb 1814 (Age 72 years)
    Family ID F154342  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2002 

    Family 3 Catherine-Irène du Buisson de Longpré   d. 1767 
    Children 
    +1. Marie Françoise Julie Filleul,   b. 1751   d. 1822 (Age 71 years)
    +2. Emilie Adelaide Filleul,   b. 14 May 1761   d. 19 Apr 1836, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    Family ID F184863  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Jan 2004 

    Family 4 Marie Louise o' Murphy   d. 1815 
    Children 
     1. Agathe Louise de Sainte-Antoine de Saint-Andrè,   b. 1754   d. 1774 (Age 20 years)
    Family ID F154343  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2002 

    Family 5 Françoise de Chaslus,   b. 1734   d. 1821 (Age 87 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Comte Louis Marie Jacques Amalric de Narbonne-Lara,   b. 24 Aug 1755   d. 17 Nov 1813, Torgau Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)
    Family ID F184867  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Jan 2004 

    Family 6 Marguerite Haynault,   b. 1736   d. 1823 (Age 87 years) 
    Children 
     1. Agnès Louise de Montreuil,   b. 1760   d. 1837 (Age 77 years)
     2. Anne Louise de la Réale,   b. 1762   d. 1831 (Age 69 years)
    Family ID F154344  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2002 

    Family 7 Lucie Madeleine d' Estaing,   b. 1743   d. 1826 (Age 83 years) 
    Children 
     1. Agnès Lucie Auguste Auguste,   b. 1761   d. 1822 (Age 61 years)
     2. Aphrodite Lucie Auguste Auguste,   b. 1764   d. 1819 (Age 55 years)
    Family ID F154345  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2002 

    Family 8 Anne Couppier de Romans,   b. 1737   d. 1808 (Age 71 years) 
    Children 
     1. Louis Aimé de Bourbon,   b. 1762   d. 1787 (Age 25 years)
    Family ID F154346  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2002 

    Family 9 Jeanne Louise Tiercelin de la Colleterie,   b. 1746   d. 1779 (Age 33 years) 
    Children 
     1. Benoït Luc le Duc,   b. 1764   d. 1837 (Age 73 years)
    Family ID F154347  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Oct 2002 

    Family 10 Catherine Eléonore Bénard,   b. 1740, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1769 (Age 29 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Louise Françoise Adélaïde de Saint Germain,   b. 13 Jan 1769, Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Mar 1850, Thauvenay Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Family ID F54844  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Oct 2002 

    Family 11 Marie Thérèse Boisselet,   b. 1731   d. 1800 (Age 69 years) 
    Children 
     1. Charles Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt,   b. 1769   d. 1821 (Age 52 years)
    Family ID F184868  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Jan 2004 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Feb 1710 - Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 5 Sep 1725 - Fontainebleau, Seine et Marne, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 10 May 1774 - Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France,, France Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • King of France (1715-1774).
      Louis XV, the son of the Duke of Burgundy and Marie-Adelaide of Savoy, was the great-grandson of Louis XIV whom he succeeded in 1715 at the age of five. Philippe d'Orleans acted as Regent, assisted by Cardinal Dubois. The first years of the Regency saw general reaction against Louis XIV's policy of absolute monarchy - reform of government councils and founding of the Polysynodie, re-­establishment of the Parliament's right of remonstrance, return of the Regent to Paris and development of a degree of moral laxity. In 1718, given the financial dif­ficulties and the carelessness of the councils, the Regent returned to a more autho­ritarian policy, ended the Polysynodie and called upon the services of Law. The system instigated by this financiers based on a Western Company for the exploita­tion of Louisiana, led to the setting up of a state bank but feverish speculation led to its eventual downfall and was deeply traumatic for French public opinion (1720). in external affairs, the Regent, who feared that Philip V of Spain would lay claim to the French throne, allied himself with England and Holland and declared war on Spain in 1719. France was quickly victorious and Philip V gave up his claim. The Regent died in 1723 just after Louis X\t had been declared to have come of age, but the monarch was happy to leave the government of the country in the hands of the Duke of Bourbon who arranged the king's marriage to Maria Leczinska, the daughter of the dethroned King of Poland (1725). Louis XV dis­missed Bourbon in 1726 and replaced him with Cardinal Fleury who directed affairs of State until 1743. He implemented a moderate policy and stringent eco­nomies in order to redress the State's finances and bring prosperity back to the kingdom but he was also faced with a return of parliamentary unrest, especially in the matter of religion. Despite his desire for peace, Fleury had to involve France in the War of Polish Succession in order to support the king's father-in-law (1733­1738). It was a failure but Stanislaus Leczinska was granted a life interest in Lorraine. When Fleury died in 1743, Louis XV announced his intention of gover­ning by himself. In fact he never really undertook his work as king and left his ministers to govern, maintaining rivalries, bowing to the influence of his mistres­ses (e.g. Madame de Pompadour) and spending his time in pleasurable pursuits.
      The king took the country into the War of Austrian Succession in 1741 but, despite a number of victories, handed back all the territories he had conquered when he signed the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (l748). From 1749 onwards, the financial situation worsened again and the Controller-General, Machaut d'Arnouville, created a tax called "le vingt~eme" (one-twentieth of the value of all possessions). The reign was entering its second phase. The king was no longer "Well Beloved", the critical new ideas of the Age of Enlightenment were beginning to gain ground Louis XV condemned the Encyclopaedia) and the parliaments again opposed the king's wishes (quarrel over confessional "tickets", 1752-1756). Having negotiated a reversal of alliances, the king took the country into another conflict, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) which was disastrous for France. The country was forced to hand almost all its colonial empire over to England. The end of Louis XV's reign was marked by further parliamentary unrest, which the king tried to end by supporting Maupeou's judicial reform (1771). He left a country that was exsanguinated and a greatly weakened monarchy. [t was during his reign that the country was extended by two new provinces - Lorraine in 1766 and Corsica in 1768. Louis XV's marriage to Maria Leczinska brought him two sons, both of whom predeceased him, and it was his grandson, Louis XVI who succeeded him when he died in 1774.



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