Mises en scène de la favorite dans la littérature du "Grand Siècle" (1665-1715) by Auboyneau, G

“…</p> <p>The fifth chapter sketches out the afterlife of the <em>favorite</em> under Louis XV and Louis XVI, and describes the principal evolutions which ensured her survival in the collective imagination.…”

Miscellany/Mélanges

“…Gargett, Voltaire, Richelieu and the problem of Huguenot emancipation in the reign of Louis XV <br/> Patrick Henry, Sacred and profane gardens in <em>Candide</em> <br/> Christina M. …”

Rumor, diplomacy and war in Enlightenment Paris by Ewing, T

“…Her reports, housed today in the Bastille archives, are little more than a collection of wartime rumors gathered from clandestine, handwritten newspapers and everyday talk around the city, yet she comes to imagine herself a political agent on behalf of Louis XV. In this book Tabetha Ewing analyses different forms of everyday talk over the course of the War of Austrian Succession to explore how they led to new understandings of political identity. …”

Marcelle Ehrhard, professeur de langue et littérature russes en 1932-1958 by Natalia Gamalova

“…Joukovski et le préromantisme russe (1938) ; sa thèse complémentaire s’intitule Un ambassadeur de Russie à la Cour de Louis XV. Le prince Cantemir à Paris (1738-1744) (1938). …”
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The rhetoric of architecture and the language of pleasure : the maison de plaisance in eighteen-century France by Liss, Alyson Jacqueline

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Book illustration, taxes and propaganda by Adams, D

“…The celebrated 1762 edition, published by the Louis XV’s detested tax-gatherers, the Compagnie des Fermiers généraux, held among its claims to supremacy its magnificent copperplate illustrations, designed by Charles Eisen. …”

The Saint-Aubin ‘Livre de caricatures’

“…The work’s unique quality is evident in its humour – whimsical, fantastical, challengingly allusive, but not without a sharp political edge when targeting clerics, the court and Louis XV’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour. <br/> Known within the Saint-Aubin family as the <em>Livre de culs</em>, the <em>Livre</em> delights in the transgression of social convention and the keen deflation of vanity and pretence. …”

Research and Researchers in the Field of Works of Art and Historical Monuments. The School of Bridges and Roads in France -- the first school of engineers in this field in the worl... by Ana-Raluca Chiriac, Paulică Răileanu

“…After a quarter of a millennium, in the 21st century, the oldest civil school of engineers in the world, created during the reign of Louis XV, remains what it has always been: a way of modern training in the benefit of the nation and of society, having the ambition to instruct a quality personnel, able to adapt to the problems and needs of its epoch. …”
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L'Idéal pédagogique en France au XVIIIe siècle by Grandière, M

“…C’est l’objet de cet ouvrage que de chercher a montrer ce mouvement et cette richesse de la pensée pédagogique sous Louis XV et Louis XVI (avant la Révolution), alors que la formation des enfants se trouve être le lieu de convergence de quelques grandes questions que dut affronter la monarchie: la place des ‘arts utiles’, des ‘métiers mécaniques’ dans la société, le rôle de l’Eglise dans la vie du royaume, l’intégration de démarches intellectuelles nouvelles, qui provoquent des conflits avec la pensée chrétienne et qui remettent en cause les sources de la pédagogie, la philosophie de l’entendement et donc des savoirs, connaissances et qualités souhaitées chez les enfants et jeunes gens du peuple et des élites.…”

Art et argent en France au temps des Premiers Modernes (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)

“…Economies du texte<br/> Jérôme Bouron, Créance circulaire dans les journaux littéraires européens du début du dix-huitième siècle (1710-1740) <br/> Charlotte Simonin, L’argent des livres dans la correspondance de Mme de Graffigny<br/> Ioana Marga Marculescu, Comment ne pas demander de faveurs au siècle de Voltaire: le cas de Vauvenargues dans ses lettres à Louis XV<br/> Sandra Travers de Faultrier, Une reconnaissance sous influence<br/> III. …”

Balzac and the visual arts by Adamson, D, Adamson, D.

“…Of all these Balzac infinitely preferred the Louis XV style: again, he was a forerunner in the revival of interest in the eighteenth century.…”