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)
How To Use Louis XV In A Sentence
- Fine French Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted marquetry, rosewood and tulipwood table de milieu.
- The term mainly refers to King Louis XVI as he was young when he became king of France. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- Under the coating of dust and cobwebs, he discovered a fine French Louis XVI clock.
- It is in fact a fine copy of the Louis XVI style, but elaborate innovations such as the pronounced breakfront covered in flowerhead and geometric trellis exclude it from being a superior piece.
- Jones became obsessed with regality, parading around Paris in dress uniform, taking audiences with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and courting French debutantes.
- A King should die standing. Louis XVIII, king of France.
- And when I was hoping to comprehend why "La force" did not "fonder" anything I would hear Mr. Hoffman whisper, "When you think that Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette passed the last evening they ever spent in Versailles in this theater! In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
- In the aftermath of defeat in the Seven Years War, Louis XV went as far as to commission projects for the abolition of the corvée and the re-establishment of provincial estates in a bid to restore public support.
- While her earlier houses were twentieth-century pastiches of the Louis XVI style, here she had authentic eighteenth-century French boiserie installed in the drawing and dining rooms.
- A King should die standing. Louis XVIII, king of France.
