Articles > Government magazines > Applied and Social Sciences magazines > Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World entries

Article: Louis XV (France) (1710–1774; Ruled 1715–1774)

Article from:
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
Author:
Copyright

LOUIS XV (FRANCE) (1710 – 1774; ruled 1715 – 1774)

LOUIS XV (FRANCE) (1710 – 1774; ruled 1715 – 1774), king of France. Louis, duc d'Anjou, was the second surviving son of Louis, duke of Burgundy, and Marie-Adela ï de, daughter of Duke Victor-Amadeus II of Savoy, and great-grandson of Louis XIV (ruled 1643 – 1715). When Louis XIV's eldest son Louis (the Grand Dauphin) died in 1711, the little duc d'Anjou's father became heir to the throne. But less than a year later his father, mother, and elder brother were killed by smallpox, leaving him the sole direct descendant and heir to the old Sun King. During Louis's boyhood, France was ruled in practice by his ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Ab<span style="font-family:Lucida ...
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Ab ū ’ l-Waf ā ʾ Al-B ū zj ā n ī , Mu ḥ ammad Ibn Mu ḥ ammad Ibn Ya ḥ y ā Ibn Ism ā ʿ ī l Ibn Al- ʿ Abb ā s ( b . B ū zj ā n [now in Iran], 10 June 940; d . Baghdad [now in Iraq], 997 or

Article: Abu<span style="font-family:Lucida ...
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Abu ’ l-Fid ā ʾ Ism ā ʿ ī l Ibn ʿ Al ī Ibn Ma ḥ m ū d Ibn … Ayy ū b, ʿ Im ā d Al-D ī n ( b . Damascus, Syria, 1273; d . Ḥ am ā , Syria, 1331) history, geography. A Prince of the AYY ū bid

Article: Al-Batt<span style="font-family:Lucida ...
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Al-Batt ā n ī , 1 Ab ū ‘ Abd All ā h Mu ḥ ammad Ibn J ā bir Ibn Sin ā n Al-Raqq ī Al- Ḥ arr ā n ī Al- Ṣ ā bi ’ also Albatenius, Albategni or Albategnius in the Latin Middle Ages; astronomy, mathematics .

Article: Ibn Al-Bay<span style="font-family:Lucida ...
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Ibn Al-Bay ṭ ā r Al-M ā laq ī , Ḍ iy ā ʾ Al-D ī n Ab ū Mu ḥ ammad ʿ Abdll ā h Ibn A ḥ mad b . M á laga, Spain, ca . 1190; d . Damascus, Syria, 1248) pharmacology, botany . Ibn al-Bay ṭ ā r may have

Article: Al-B<span style="font-family:Lucida ...
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Al-B ī r ū n ī (or B ē r ū n ī ), Ab ū Ray ḥ ā n (or Abu ’ l-Ray ḥ ā n) Mu ḥ ammad Ibn A ḥ mad ( b . Khw ā razm [now Kara-Kalpakskaya A. S.S.R 4 September 973; d . Gbazna now Gbazni, Afghanistan], after

Article: Al-Bakr<span style="font-family:Lucida ...
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography;      700+ words ...Al-Bakr ī , Ab ū ʿ Ubayd ʿ Abdall ā h Ibn ʿ Abd Al- ʿ Az ī z Ibn Mu ḥ ammad ( b. ca. 1010; d. 1094) geography. Al-Bakr ī was a Hispano-Arabic geographer who belonged to a family of landowners that took advantage of the fall of the

Article: B<span style="font-family:Lucida Sans ...
Contemporary Hispanic Biography;      700+ words ...Hugo B á nzer Su á rez: 1926 — : Politician Ailing Bolivian president Hugo B á nzer Su á rez resigned in August of 2001 after a long and sometimes controversial political career. A top military officer who engineered a 1971 coup, B á nzer led Bolivia through seven

Article: Calder<span style="font-family:Lucida ...
Contemporary Hispanic Biography;      700+ words ...Sila Mar í a Calder ó n: 1942 — : Governor of Puerto Rico As the former mayor of San Juan, and as Puerto Rico's first woman governor, Sila Mar í a Calder ó n has set goals to ally Puerto Rico with other Latin American nations and to establish national autonomy. To reduce

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives