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+======The Royal Family======
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+[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/French-monarchsBourbon.png|The Family Tree]]
+=====The Family=====
+=====King Louis XV the Beloved=====
+  * [[VersaillesForeign|Foreign Policy]]
+===Personality===
+History says, unfortunately, that while he was a good father, he remained a poor and indolent ruler who in the latter part of his reign brought absolutism into contempt.
+His greatest asset as a king is his magnificent presence; from childhood to premature old age he was strikingly handsome.  Yet even as a child he was both lazy and bored, and already took pleasure in inflicting pain on other people.  He always remained timid, afraid of new faces and a bad public speaker.  A far from edifying life did not prevent him from being extremely pious and attending all the religious services required of him; he loathed the Philosophes for their attacks on religion.  He showed his courage on the field of battle, yet hated war for humanitarian reasons.
+At the beginning of his reign he enjoyed considerable popularity; the news of his serious illness at Metz, when he was with his armies in 1744, aroused consternation among the general public.
+His chief weaknesses as a rulere are his indolence, shyness and irresolution; he often allowed himself to be persuaded, against his better judgement, into following disastrous policies.
+Above all, he was the victim of boredom; he had constantly to be amused.  He was fond of the pleasures of the table and delighted in //petit soupers// served without valets and in the midst of a few intimates of both sexes.  His great passion in life - apart from women - was hunting.
+Another important ingredient in the King's life is his incessant journeyings from Versailles to the palaces, large and small, which he possessed in the Paris region, from Compi+¬gne to Fontainebleau.
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+<img src="http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/images/PLATE65AX.JPG" alt="Francoise Marie de Bourbon" title="Francoise Marie de Bourbon"><br>
+Francoise Marie de Bourbon - Duchess of Orleans (1702), <br>Palace Guard of Louis XV of France (1724)
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+<img src="http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/images/PLATE68BX.JPG" alt="Louis XV" title="Louis XV"><br>
+Louis XV and French General (1704-1730)
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