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Louis XV (1715-1774) assumed the throne in the wake of his great- grandfather, the "Sun King" Louis XIV, who ruled from 1643-1715, and under whom France grew to become the strongest and most culturally influential state in Europe. Yet the fifty-nine year reign of Louis XV evidences the difficulties, contradictions, traditions, and new ideas that characterized France under the Old Regime, the political, societal, and cultural schema that prevailed in France under the French monarchs before the French Revolution. To understand how the revolution actually changed the ancien regime (Old Regime), we must first understand that schema of French society. Since the organization of nation-states, France, like most other European nations, was a monarchy whose kings claimed a divine right to absolute rule.
Approximate Word count = 429 Approximate Pages = 1.7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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