Alexis Piron, poète (1689-1773), ou la condition difficile d'auteur sous Louis XV by Verèb, P

Une célébration du roi ? Pierre Patte et ses Monumens érigés en France à la gloire de Louis XV by Yvonne Rickert

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Les regarnis de Versailles et de Trianon à travers vingt commandes aux Pépinières du roi (1753-1772) by Felice Olivesi

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Bernard Hours, Louis XV et sa Cour. Le roi, l’étiquette et le courtisan, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, coll. « Le nœud gordien », 2002, 302 p. by Nicolas Le Roux

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Louis XVI ou le nouvel Henri IV by Aurore Chéry

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Shakherazada from Bellevue or french boudoir "a la turk" of the XVIII century by B. Shapiro

“…One of the manifestations of the «à la Turk» fashion was the «Turkish» decoration of boudoirs that came into fashion in the early reign of Louis XV, together with the fashion for a private rather than ceremonial lifestyle. …”
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Non-Invasive Raman Analysis of 18th Century Chinese Export/Armorial Overglazed Porcelain: Identification of the Different Enameling Techniques by Philippe Colomban, Anh-Tu Ngo, Nicolas Fournery

“…Six rare porcelains of the Qing Dynasty, in particular, dishes ordered respectively for Philibert Orry, the Duke of Penthièvre and a tureen from the service of Louis XV, with royal coat-of-arms, were analyzed non-invasively by Raman microspectrometry. …”
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L’Université de Perpignan au XVIIIe siècle : palais et temple du savoir à l’âge des Lumières by Esteban Castañer Muñoz

“…The former buildings of the University of Perpignan date back to 1759 and were designed by an engineer: Lescure. King Louis XV attending the request of Governor de Mailly wanted to turn Perpignan into a city of the Enlightenment. …”
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The Gazette Littéraire de l'Europe and Anglo-French Cultural Diplomacy by Jonathan Conlin

“…In the wake of France's defeat in the Seven Years War (1756-1763) Louis XV's ministers experimented with a number of reforms intended to reimagine the nation as something citizens could invest in financially, politically and even emotionally. …”
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Cerisiers, pêchers et ananas : des cultures de pointe dans les potagers royaux en Île-de-France dans la seconde moitié du xviiie siècle by Marion Rouet

“…Looking at the royal estates of Choisy-le-Roi, we will try to understand how fruit trees were cultivated in order to satisfy Louis XV’s tastes and if indeed taste was the only criterion involved, or if other considerations were not also taken into account in bringing fruit to the royal table. …”
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Les destins croisés de François Boucher et Jean-Nicolas Servandoni by Lionel Arsac

“…A major painter of the French 18th century, François Boucher had a brilliant career during the reign of Louis XV, becoming first painter to the king in 1765. …”
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Nicolas Le Floch, un bon produit «à l'export»? Réflexions sur la diffusion et la réception internationale d’une série historique (très) française... by Bernard Papin

“…The historical series, which narrates the investigations of a police superintendent in the France of Louis XV and Louis XVI, is similar in many respects to the genre of “heritage fiction”: sets and costumes are lavish, dialogues carefully written in a language reminiscent of the Age of Enlightenment. …”
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Philibert Orry : directeur général des Bâtiments du roi et collectionneur by Françoise Joulie

“…In the government of Louis XV, from 1730, Philibert Orry de Vignory, originally from Champagne, occupied a prominent place, first as the Controller-General of Finances, and then from 1737 as director of Bâtiments. …”
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Lunéville au miroir de Versailles : reflets d’un regard distancié (1698-1737) by Thierry Franz

“…Since the eighteenth century, the Château de Lunéville has been considered the ‘Versailles’ of Lorraine, a duchy that was then independent of its western neighbour, the kingdom of France, to which it was officially attached in 1766, on the death of the last duke, Stanislas Leszczyński (1677–1766), former king of Poland and father-in-law of King Louis XV. However, a study of the worksites of the residences rebuilt by his predecessors leads us to qualify the idea of a slavish copy of the French model. …”
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Le Trianon de la Restauration ? La duchesse d’Angoulême et l’usage de Villeneuve-l’Étang by Matthieu Mensch

“…This practice was reinforced during the reign of Louis XV and did not spare the queen, Marie Leszczyńska, yet Trianon, used more systematically by Marie-Antoinette, seemed to be the focus of all attention. …”
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Voltaire e um episódio da história de Portugal by José Oscar de Almeida Marques

“…Em seu Précis du siècle de LouísXV Voltaire dedica duas passagens a acontecimentos ocorridos no século em Portugal: a devastação de Lisboa pelo terremoto de 1755 e as conseqüências do alegado envolvimento dos jesuítas, três anos mais tarde, no atentado contra o rei D.JoséI. …”
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La science à la cour de Versailles : mise en scène du savoir et démonstration du pouvoir (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) by Jérôme Lamy

“…L’implication du roi s’est révélée fondamentale : Louis XIV, par sa puissance, ne pouvait s’impliquer trop fortement sans compromettre l’autonomie des savants, Louis XV, au contraire, s’est employé à observer le ciel à de nombreuses reprises. …”
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Miscellany/Mélanges

“…Pratt, Of exploration and exploitation: the New World in later Enlightenment epic <br/> Jean-Claude David, Intrigues et cabales ministérielles à la fin du règne de Louis XV: l’exil du chevalier d’Arcq <br/> Daniel Teysseire, Lien social et ordre politique chez Cabanis <br/> Georges Festa, Littérature portugaise et Lumières: la contribution des voyageurs français <br/> John Lough, France in the 1780s seen by Joseph and Anna Francesca Craddock…”

Beaumarchais libelliste ? by Linda Gil

“…Beaumarchais est doublement exposé à ce type d’écrits : d’une part, il est chargé, à la fin du règne de Louis XV et durant le règne de Louis XVI, de missions diplomatiques destinées à mettre fin à la circulation de libelles diffamatoires contre le roi et sa famille ; d’autre part, mêlé lui-même à plusieurs affaires judiciaires, il entre dans un processus de communication publicisé pour gérer ses affaires commerciales et littéraires, pour attaquer ses adversaires ou pour se défendre. …”
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Drawing, design, and new images of the ephemeral architecture in Paris in 1739 by Vincenzo Cirillo, Carlo Di Rienzo, Ornella Zerlenda

“…Specifically, the majestic eighteenth-century event held in Paris under the rule of Louis XV and described in the volume entitled Festes donneés par la ville de Paris A L’occasion du Mariage de Madame Louise Elisabeth de France […] (1739) is examined here. …”
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