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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 128. Chapters: Louis XV of France, Louis XVII of France, Louis XVIII of France, Charles X of France, Philip V of Spain, Jean-Antoine Houdon, François Achille Bazaine, Nicolas Anelka, Marie Thérèse of France, Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans, Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, Arnaud II de La Porte, Jean-François Lyotard, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, Michel Gondry, Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Julie Halard-Decugis, Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy, Louise Élisabeth of France, Charles, Duke of Berry, Agathe de Rambaud, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Princess Élisabeth of France, Louis Alexandre Berthier, Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, Marie Clotilde of France, André Michaux, Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, Jacques Hadamard, Princess Victoire of France, Jules de Polignac, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Stéphane Audran, Princess Louise Marie of France, Louis, Duke of Brittany, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Marie Victoire de Noailles, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Mademoiselle du Maine, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Princess Henriette of France, Edmond-Charles Genêt, Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Lazare Hoche, Princess Marie Thérèse of France, Henriette Louise de Bourbon, Princess Sophie of France, Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France, Louis, Count of Clermont, Charles Alain, Prince of Guéméné, Florence Devouard, Mesdames de France, Princess Marie Zéphyrine of France, Pierre François Tissot, Philippe, Duke of Anjou, Thomas Hugues, Louis Auguste, Prince of Dombes, Princess Thérèse of France, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon, Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet, Princess Louise of France, Sophie d'Artois, Pierre Beauchamp, Gilles Andruet, Virginie Gervais, Jean-François Ducis, Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan, François Wartel, Xavier, Duke of Aquitaine, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Louis Marie de Lescure, Alphonse Henri, comte d'Hautpoul, Louis de Noailles, Adolphe Bazaine-Vasseur, François Claude du Barail, Félix Marie Charles Texier, Jacques Philippe Martin Cels, Denis Podalydès, Sibyl Buck, Jean-Victor Schnetz, Francis Perrin, Gilles-Louis Chrétien, Daniel Ivernel, Gratien Le Père, Maurice Rheims, Paul d'Albert de Luynes, Etienne Aubry, Benoît Georges de Najac. Excerpt: Louis XV (15 February 1710 - 10 May 1774) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. After he succeeded to the throne at the age of five, his first cousin twice removed, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723. Cardinal de Fleury was his chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the young king took over control of the French state. Louis XV was a member of the House of Bourbon. Louis enjoyed a favorable reputation at the beginning of his reign and earned the epithet "le Bien-Aimé" ("the Beloved"). In time, the debauchery of his court, the return of the Austrian Netherlands (which was gained following the Battle of Fontenoy) at Aix-la-Chapelle, and the cession of New France at the conclusion of the Seven Years' War led Louis to become one of the most unpopular kings in the history of France. He was succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI. Louis XV's ill-advised financial policies damaged the power of France, weakened the treasury, discre...