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Louis XV ; the monarchy in decline. by Gooch, G. P. (George Peabody), 1873-1968

Subjects: “…Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774. n 50080622…”

Louis XV's navy, 1748-1762 : a study of organization and administration / by Pritchard, James S., 1939-2015

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Louis xv and His Naval Secretaries of State -- 2 The Central Bureaux -- 3 Officers of the Pen -- 4 Officers of the Sword -- 5 The Manning Problem -- 6 The Arsenals -- 7 Arsenal Workers -- 8 Ships and the Fleet -- 9 The Ordnance Problem -- 10 Naval Stores -- 11 Naval Finances -- 12 Conclusion -- Appendix: Note on Naval Financial Data -- Notes -- Manuscript Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S…”
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The rise and fall of Versailles. the palace of pleasure

Subjects: “…Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774.…”
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L'art de reconnaître les styles : Les styles Régence et Louis XV. by Bayard, Émile

Table of Contents: “…Bouchardon, etc. -- CHAPITRE VIII -- Le Meuble : Jean-François Oëben, les Martins, etc. -- CHAPITRE IX -- L'Orfèvrerie, l'Art décoratif, les Caffieri, etc. -- CHAPITRE X -- Le Costume sous la Régence et sous Louis XV -- CHAPITRE XI -- Quelques mots des styles après Louis XV -- CHAPITRE XII -- Causerie sur nos gravures.…”
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Lally-Tollendal : La fin d'un empire français aux Indes sous Louis XV. by Hamont, Tibulle

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Le Duc de Lauzun et la cour intime de Louis XV : la fin d'une société / by Maugras, Gaston, 1850-1927

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French decorative art, 1638-1793 by Savage, George, 1909-1982

Subjects: “…Decoration and ornament Louis XV style. sh 85036246…”

Power and politics in Old Regime France, 1720-1745 by Campbell, Peter Robert, 1955-

Subjects: “…Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774.…”
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Curiosités historiques sur Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Mme de Maintenon, Mme de Pompadour, Mme Du Barry, etc. by Le Roi, J.-A. (Joseph-Adrien), 1797-1873

Table of Contents: “…Note n° 8Note n° 9; Note n° 10; Note n° 11; Note n° 12; Note n° 13; VII -- Détails inédits sur la mort de Louis XIV; VIII -- Relevé des dépenses de madame de Pompadour; IX -- Le parc aux cerfs sous Louis XV; X -- Madame du Barry; Résumé historique; Notes.…”
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Death and the crown : ritual and politics in France before the Revolution / Ritual and politics in France before the Revolution by Byrne, Anne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Ceremony in history -- The deathbed ceremonies of Louis XV, May 1774 -- The funeral of Louis XV, July 1774 -- The lit de justice of November 1774 -- 'Le roi se fait sacré': preparing the coronation, 1774-75 -- 'Vive le roi!'…”
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Nobility lost : French and Canadian martial cultures, Indians, and the end of New France by Crouch, Christian Ayne, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : glory beyond the water -- Onontio's war, Louis XV's peace -- Interpreting landscapes of violence -- Culture wars in the woods -- Assigning a value to valor -- The losing face of France -- Paradise -- Epilogue : mon frère sauvage.…”
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Anatomy of a naval disaster : the 1746 French naval expedition to North America by Pritchard, James S., 1939-2015

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Between crown and commerce : Marseille and the early modern Mediterranean by Takeda, Junko Thérèse, 1976-

“…France History Louis XV, 1715-1774.…”
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Liberty and locality in revolutionary France : six villages compared, 1760-1820 by Jones, Peter, 1949-

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Thomas Jefferson's Paris by Rice, Howard C. (Howard Crosby), 1904-1980

Table of Contents: “…The Center of Jefferson's Paris Place Louis XV, Tuileries, Louvre --…”
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France's lost empires : fragmentation, nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale

Table of Contents: “…De Gaulle and the "debt of Louis XV" : how nostalgia shaped de Gaulle's North American foreign policy in the 1960s /…”
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Shapely bodies : the image of porcelain in eighteenth-century France by Jones, Christine A., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Accessorizing France -- Louis XIV's Porcelain Folly -- Chemistry -- Couture -- Character -- Intimacies -- Louis XV's Porcelain Fetish -- Postscript: Porcelain Revolution.…”
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L'Art industriel : Les Beaux-arts considérés dans leurs rapports avec l'industrie moderne. by Laboulaye, Charles

Table of Contents: “…STYLE BYZANTIN, ROMANSTYLE GOTHIQUE OGIVAL; STYLE RENAISSANCE; STYLES LOUIS XIV ET LOUIS XV; CIVILISATIONS ASIATIQUES ET ORIENTALES -- STYLE INDOU; STYLE ARABE, MAURESQUE; STYLE CHINOIS; STYLE ACTUEL; SECTION II -- CÉRAMIQUE; STYLE ÉGYPTIEN; STYLE GRÈC; STYLE DE L'ÉPOQUE ROMAlNE, VASES ÉTRUSQUES; ARTS CÉRAMIQUES PENDANT LE MOYEN AGE; STYLE RENAISSANCE; STYLE LOUIS XV; FABRICATION DES PAYS ORIENTAUX -- STYLE MAURESQUE; STYLE CHINOIS; STYLE INDOU; EPOQUE MODERNE; SECTION III -- MEUBLES, ÉBÉNISTERIE; STYLE ÉGYPTIEN; STYLE GREC ROMAIN; STYLE BYZANTIN ET ROMAN; STYLE GOTHIQUE OGIVAL; STYLE RENAISSANCE.…”
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The Idea of the Sciences in the French Enlightenment A Reinterpretation. by Adkins, G. Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Montmor Discourse: Samuel Sorbière and the Foundation of the Royal Academy of Sciences -- The Esprits Supérieurs : Bernard de Fontenelle's Academic Eulogies -- Fear and Loathing in the Courts of Louis XV and Louis XVI: The Sciences and the Crisis of the Monarchy from Voltaire to Turgot -- Struggle and Radicalization on the Eve of the Revolution: Condorcet and the Transformation of the Idea of the Sciences -- The Coming of the Tenth Epoch: The Idea of the Sciences to the Revolution of 1789 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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L'Amour sous les verrous : Les prisons révolutionnaires - Mme Roland et Buzot. Lucile et Camille Desmoulins. André Chénier et la Jeune Captive. Notre-Dame de Thermidor. Geôles et s... by D' Alméras, Henri

Table of Contents: “…Page de titre; I -- Femmes du XVIIIe siècle de Louis XV à Robespierre; II -- Geôles parisiennes sous la Terreur; III -- Vie de prison, vie de salon; IV -- La part de l'amour; V -- Le secret de madame Roland; VI -- Idylle sanglante -- Camille et Lucile; VII -- Roucher et André Chénier à St-Lazare -- La jeune captive; Page de Copyright.…”
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The fabulous ego : absolute power in history / Milton Klnosky. by Klonsky, Milton

Table of Contents: “…--Charles I (1600-1649).--Louis XV (1710-1774).--Catherine the Great (1729-1796).…”

Course of French History. by Goubert, Pierre

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of genealogies; List of maps; France under the early Capetians: 987 1180; The apogee of medieval France: the thirteenth century, 1180 1314; The misfortunes of the fourteenth century; The fifteenth century: a kingdom reborn from the ashes; The 'beautiful' sixteenth century: 1494 1552; Difficult times: 1560 1610; From Good King Henry to the Sun King: 1598 1661; The pleasant seasons of a great reign: 1661 1688; Autumn of the great century: 1689 1715; The age of Louis XV: 1715 1774; Louis XVI: 1774 1792; The Revolution during peacetime: 1789 1792.…”
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The ABC of styles by Bayard, Emile, 1868-1937

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Antiquity; The initial inspiration for styles; Styles: Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman, and so on; The Middle Ages; The styles of the Middle Ages; The Latin and Romanesque styles; The Gothic style; From Renaissance to Baroque; Renaissance Style; Louis XIII Style; Louis XIV Style; From Rococo to Neo-Classicism; The Régence Style, also known as "Rocaille" or "Rococo"; Louis XV Style; Louis XVI Style; From the Directoire tothe Second Empire; The Styles of the Revolution and the First Empire; Style under the two Restorations, under Louis-Philippe, during the Second Empire.…”
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La Duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac et les amies de la reine : Les Derniers Jours de Trianon by Capefigue, M. (Jean Baptiste Honoré Raymond), 1802-1872

Table of Contents: “…Les opinions à la mort de Louis XV; IV -- Marie-Antoinette, reine de France; V -- Les origines de la famille de Polignac. -- Le cardinal. …”
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Rethinking the Mediterranean

Table of Contents: “…Bowersock -- Travel sickness: medicine and mobility in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the Renaissance / Peregrine Horden -- The ancient Mediterranean: the view from the customs house / Nicholas Purcell -- Travel and experience in the Mediterranean of Louis XV / Christopher Drew Armstrong -- The mirage of Greek continuity: on the uses and abuses of analogy in some travel narratives from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century / Suzanne Saïd -- Mediterranean reception in the Americas / Francisco Marshall -- Alphabet soup in the Mediterranean basin: the emergence of the Mediterranean serial / Susan E. …”
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Les Rues de Paris : Paris ancien et moderne, origines, histoire. by Lurine, Louis

Table of Contents: “…Rue de Blancs-ManteauxLe Palais-Royal; Rue Saint-Florentin; Rue des Lombards; Rue et passage du Caire; Marché des Innocents; Rue et quartier Saint-Germain-des-Prés; Rue Quincampoix; Les quais; Rue Mouffetard; Rue et faubourg Saint-Honoré; I; II; Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs; Place Louis XV; Rue Lepelletier; Rue Rambuteau.…”
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Sex and race. Negro-Caucasian mixing in all ages and all lands by Rogers, J. A.

Table of Contents: “…ISABEAU, BLACK VENUS OF THE REIGN OF LOUIS XV; XXI. THE BLACK NUN-MULATTO DAUGHTER OF MARIA THERESA, QUEEN OF FRANCE; XXII. …”
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Jeux et joueurs d'autrefois : Essai historique. by Marquiset, Alfred

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Historical dictionary of Rococo art by Milam, Jennifer Dawn, 1968-

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Iraq : whose country is it anyway?

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Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart / Mozart's sister

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Miscellanea artistiques. by Diderot, Denis

Table of Contents: “…Le monument de la place de ReimsExtrait d'un ouvrage anglais sur la peinture; Observations sur la sculpture et sur Bouchardon; Traité des couleurs pour la peinture en émail et sur la porcelaine -- Ouvrage posthume; AVERTISSEMENT; EXPOSITION ABRÉGÉE DE L'ART DE PEINDRE SUR L'ÉMAIL; OBSERVATION DE L'ÉDITEUR; Notice sur Carle Van Loo; Projets du tombeau pour M. le Dauphin; PREMIER PROJET; SECOND PROJET; TROISIÈME PROJET; QUATRIÈME PROJET; CINQUIÈME PROJET; Sur la statue de Louis XV de l'École militaire; Sur la peinture -- Poème en trois chants; CHANT PREMIER; ARGUMENT; EXAMEN; CHANT II; ARGUMENT.…”
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Des siècles de beauté : Entre séduction et politique. by Bailly, Sylvie

Table of Contents: “…XVIIe ET XVIIIe SIÈCLES, LA CRÉATION DES ÉTATS MODERNES EN EUROPELouis XIV; Louis XV; Cours étrangères; Cour du Japon; Cour d'Angleterre; Cour de Russie; Cour d'Autriche; Cour de France; Louis XVI; RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE; XIXe SIÈCLE; CONSULAT; L'EMPIRE; REINE VICTORIA D'ANGLETERRE; DANDYSME; ÈRE INDUSTRIELLE; ÉLISABETH D'AUTRICHE; IMPÉRATRICE EUGÉNIE; XX-XXIe SIÈCLES; PREMIÈRE GUERRE MONDIALE; ANNÉES 1920 : LES GARÇONNES; FEMME COMMUNISTE EN EUROPE DE L'EST; RÉVOLUTION CHINOISE; SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE; Allemagne nazie; Japon; Alliés…”
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Les rois et les gouvernements de la France : De Hugues Capet à l'année 1906. by Franklin, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…. -- Louis XIV; XXXII. -- Louis XV; XXXIII -- Louis XVI; XXXIV. -- Louis XVII; VI -- Première République; I. -- Convention; II. -- Directoire; III. -- Consulat.…”
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Interiors and Interiority

Table of Contents: “…Incorporations : Mariology, Calvinism, painting: interiority in Pieter de Hooch's Mother at a Cradle / Beate Söntgen -- Space, intimacy, and deformity: stags at Louis XV's Versailles / Catherine Girard -- Non-European artifacts and the art interior of the late 1920s and early 1930s / Charlotte Klonk. …”
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Architecture and urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire : state, Church, and society, 1604-1830 by Bailey, Gauvin A.

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The art of the shoe by Bossan, Marie-Josèphe

Table of Contents: “…Grant; Shoes from Around the World; The Ottoman Empire; Persia; India; China; North America; Shoes Worn by Celebrities; Shoe of Henry II de Montmorency; Madame de Pompadour's Shoes; Or the triumph of the heel under Louis XV; The Shoe of Marie-Antoinette; Shoes of Saint-Jean-Marie Vianney.…”
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Physiologie du goût : Méditations de gastronomie transcendante - Tome II. by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Jean

Table of Contents: “…. -- des Grecs; Festins des Romains; Résurrection de Lucullus; Lecti-sternium et Incubitation; Poésie; Irruption des Barbares; Siècles de Louis XIV et de Louis XV; Louis XVI; Améliorations sous le rapport de l'Art; Derniers perfectionnemens; MÉDITATION XXVIII -- Des Restaurateurs; Établissement; Avantages des Restaurans; Examen du Salon; Inconvéniens; Émulation; Restaurateurs à prix fixe; Beauvilliers; Le Gastronome chez le Restaurateur; MÉDITATION XXIX -- La Gourmandise classique mise en action; Histoire de M. de Borose.…”
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Praise of chromosome "folly" : confessions of an untamed molecular structure by Lima-de-Faria, A.

Table of Contents: “…Both the cell and the chromosome have an unfailing memory. 96. When King Louis XV of France was going to be married, the Princess in question could give birth to rabbits. 97. …”
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Correspondance générale d'Helvétius. by Helvétius, 1715-1771

Table of Contents: “…Mathieu-Joseph, chevalier de Ligniville[sup(1)], à Madame Helvétius -- 363. Louis XV au cardinal Nicolas-Charles de Saulx-Tavanes[sup(1)] -- 364. …”
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