Athenæum. J. Lection.
744 (1842):110
Louis XV King of France
Standard Name: Louis XV,, King of France
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Elizabeth Meeke | Midnight Weddings features the huge family (fifteen children) of a woman who married her country-squire employer, then re-married after his death. Edmund does well for himself in India, marries the cast-off companion of his... |
| Literary responses | Nancy Mitford | Historian A. J. P. Taylor
wrote in the Manchester Guardian: All who admired The Pursuit of Love will be delighted to hear that its characters have appeared again, this time in fancy dress. They... |
| Literary Setting | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | The story is set in England and France in the reign of Louis XV
, and features his wife, Marie Leszcynska
, and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour
, as well as Bonnie Prince Charlie |
| Literary Setting | Julia Kristeva | The clock in question is an astronomical one, which shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, as well as telling the time; it is programmed to keep measuring all these... |
| Literary Setting | Georgina Munro | A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Performance of text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The young MEB
's comedietta The Loves of Arcadia, set during the eighteenth century in the reign of the French king Louis XV
, opened at the Strand Theatre
in London. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 75 |
| Performance of text | Christopher St John | CSJ
's play Du Barri (whose protagonist was well known as a mistress to Louis XV
) was first performed at the Savoy Theatre
, London. Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973. 928 |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | During the later phase of her career, DR
translated about five monographs from German and French into English; these texts were published between 1932 and 1934. They include The Dubarry [sic], a biography of... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
was judged successfully to have united romance with history in Louis, the Well-Beloved, 1959, her historical novel about Louis XV
and his wife, Marie Leszcynska
, Pearson, John. “Review of Louis the Well-Beloved by Jean Plaidy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2991, 26 June 1959, p. 381. 381 |
| Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her subject, more usually known as Elizabeth Charlotte, married Philippe I, duc d'Orléans
, who was Regent of France during the minority of his nephew the future Louis XV
. MBL
's French relations were... |
Timeline
21 August 1715: Louis XIV died; a Regency was established...
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21 August 1715
Louis XIV
died; a Regency was established (under the second duc d'Orleans
) for the underage Louis XV
.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
328
Michaud, Joseph François, and Louis Gabriel Michaud. Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne. Michaud frères, 1811–1857, 84 vols.
This date was 1 September in France.
1755: Maurice-Quentin De La Tour painted Madame...
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1755
Maurice-Quentin De La Tour
painted Madame de Pompadour
(the Frenchking
's mistress, and a power in the land) sitting at a large (though extremely elegant) desk surrounded by learned folio volumes.
Goodman, Dena. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Cornell University Press, 2009.
231-4
6 January 1757: Robert François Damiens stabbed the French...
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6 January 1757
Robert François Damiens
stabbed the Frenchking
in the street; he was later executed with extreme brutality as a would-be regicide: pulled limb from limb by horses, with human intervention in his dismemberment as well...
15 April 1764: Madame de Pompadour, former mistress of Louis...
Building item
15 April 1764
Madame de Pompadour
, former mistress of Louis XV
, died: she had exercised a powerful influence on the visual arts, and on French public life generally, for nearly twenty years.
Gordon, Alden R. “Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 91-111. 94-5 and nn. 1, 4, 7
19 January 1771: French parlements, the sovereign court of...
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19 January 1771
French parlements
, the sovereign court of Justice in Paris and thirteen other centres, were abolished by Louis XV
.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
10: 849
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
211
10 May 1774: Louis XV of France, great-grandson and immediate...
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