Louis XV

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Louis XV ( the Well-Beloved) (1710–74) King of France (1715–74). Grandson and successor of Louis XIV, he failed to arrest the slow decline of the monarchy. Disastrous wars, especially the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War, resulted in financial crisis and the loss of most of the French empire. Louis encountered opposition from parlements (the supreme courts) and conflict with the followers of Jansenism and court factions. The monarchy became deeply unpopular in France.

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