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Definition of Louis XV
1. Noun. Grandson of Louis XIV and king of France from 1715 to 1774 who led France into the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1710-1774).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Louis XV
Literary usage of Louis XV
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"This change commenced under the Regency, and reached its maximum developement
under the reign of Louis XV. It has been said by an eminent French writer, ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Louis XV answered: " We hold our Crown from God alone. ... The person of Louis
XV served as a mark for the anger of all parties — that of Choiseul, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"But Louis XV. was then under the influence of Madame de Mailly, ... Louis XV.
bought her the estate of Pompadour, from which she took her title of marquise. ..."
4. The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth) (1885)
"Never was Europe more happy than during the years which rolled by between 1750
and 1758," he has said in hj# Tableau du Siecle de Louis XV. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"'Louis XV intime et les petites maitresses' (Paris 1909) ; Gon- court, ...
During the lifetime of Louis XV he bore the title of Duke of Berri. ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"Le Secret du Noi: Correspondance Secrete de Louis XV avec ses Agents ... The King's
Secret : icing the Secret Correspondence o, Louis XV. with his ..."
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