Кой излиза с Луи XV?

Луи ХV (на френски: Louis XV) е крал на Франция и Навара от 1715 до 1774 г. Известен е със своето неадекватно и некомпетентно управление, което сериозно намалява силата и престижа на френската монархия – както вътрешен, така и международен. В страната той не успява да разреши основните проблеми, които разделят френското общество: враждата между йезуити и янсенисти, господстващото положение на привилегированите класи; короната не съумява да ги накара да плащат справедлив дял от данъците. Институциите на стария режим остават твърде бюрократични и неспособни да отговорят на променящото се общество, което се развива бързо в идейно, културно и икономическо отношение. Нерешен и дори задълбочен остава конфликтът между краля и провинциалните парламенти, които защитават привилегиите.

На полето на международната политика Франция се развива възходящо през първата половина от управлението на Луи ХV. Разтърсената през Войната за испанското наследство могъща монархия бавно се съвзема по време на регентството и управлението на кардинал Фльори, като се съюзява с Великобритания и Обединените провинции срещу Испания. Франция участва успешно във Войната на четворния съюз и Войната за полското наследство. Дори когато променя курса и привлича Испания на своя страна (във Войната за австрийското наследство), успехите продължават. От 1744 до 1748 г. френските войски покоряват цяла Австрийска Нидерландия, което не са постигали дори при Краля Слънце. Когато Луи ХV неочаквано връща всичко завладяно, настъпва първото голямо разочарование от него.

Като единствен оцелял представител на Бурбоните през 1715 г., той се ползва с огромната обич на своя народ (наричан е Многообичан, Le Bien-Aimé). Това, че оживява и остава така дълго на престола, в началото се счита за голям късмет, както и фактът, че осигурява наследници. Престижът му се срива истински едва след пагубната Седемгодишна война, когато Франция губи Канада и постове в Индия за сметка на Великобритания. Армията търпи унизителни поражения. Влиянието на кралските фаворитки като мадам Помпадур и графиня дю Бари още повече отблъскват народа от него. Може да се каже, че именно неговото управление предпоставя бъдещата Френска революция.

Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie (26 December 1746 – 5 July 1779), known as Madame de Bonneval, was a mistress to King Louis XV of France from 1762 to 1765. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

Мари-Ан дьо Майи-Несл (на френски: Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle), маркиза дьо Ла Турнел, херцогиня дьо Шатору, е фаворитка и метреса на Луи XV.

Жана-Антоанет Поасон (на френски: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, 29 декември 1721 – 15 април 1764), по-известна като мадам Дьо Помпадур (на френски: marquise de Pompadour), е метреса (фаворитка) на френския крал Луи XV.

Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing, dame de Ravel, est née le 10 mai 1743 à Paris et morte le 7 avril 1826 à Clermont-Ferrand.

Françoise de Chalus (bap. Chalus, 24 February 1734 - Paris, 7 July 1821), was a French noblewoman and courtier. She was the mother of Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara, possibly by King Louis XV. She was the lady-in-waiting of Louise Élisabeth of France in 1749–59, and the influential favorite lady-in-waiting of Princess Adélaïde of France in 1764–1800.

Marie Anne de Coislin (1732-1817), was a French aristocrat, known as the mistress to Louis XV of France in 1755. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

She was the daughter of the marquis Louis de Mailly (1696-1767) and the lady-in-waiting Anne Françoise Elisabeth Arbaleste de Melun and married in 1750 to the duke Charles Georges René du Cambout de Coislin (d. 1771), but they separated early on and she moved back with her parents.

In 1755, Louis François, Prince of Conti launched her as his candidate to replace Madame de Pompadour as official mistress of the king. She was the first serious candidate to be put up against Madame de Pompadour since Charlotte Rosalie de Choiseul-Beaupré, and she was also to be the last. She did succeed to be the secret lover of the king, which attracted some attention at court. She became known as l'altière Vasthi. Ultimately, however, the plot failed, and she was ousted from court by Madame de Pompadour. After this, there was no more serious rival to replace Madame de Pompadour, and the king mainly settled with his unofficial lovers at the Parc-aux-Cerfs.

Marie Anne de Coislin had affairs with the Prince de Conti and the count de Coigny, and was claimed to have had affairs with Christian VI of Denmark, Gustav III of Sweden and Peter III of Russia. It is unknown if these rumours where true, but Christian VI and Gustav III did visit her during their visits to Paris, which attracted attention at the time.

She did not leave France during the French Revolution, but lived as a servant in Rouen, Brittany and Vendée during the Reign of Terror. After the fall of Robespierre, she resumed her former life and property. She remarried in 1793 to Louis-Marie duc de Mailly (d. 1795).

Irène du Buisson de Longpré (c. 1720–1767), was a French noblewoman, mistress to Louis XV of France. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet (1731 – 1800) was a petite maîtresse of King Louis XV of France.

Boisselet was born to Pierre Sulpice Boisselet and Marie Thérèse Carouailles. Her father was an employee of the king's kitchen staff, with the title 'Contrôleur de la Bouche du Roi et chef du gobelet de Mme la Dauphine'. Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet was described as a beauty, and she agreed to become the lover of the king. The affair was not an official one; she was recruited to be a petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress) of the king in Parc-aux-Cerfs. She had one child with the king, Charles Louis Cadet de Gassicourt (1769–1821).

In 1771, she married the chemist Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, who adopted her son. According to Paul Thiébault, Louis XV benefitted the career of Cadet de Gassicourt in the Royal Academy because of his marriage to his former lover.

Louise Julie de Mailly Nesle, condesa de Mailly (1710-París, 1751) fue la mayor de las cinco hermanas de Nesle, cuatro de las cuales fueron amantes del rey Luis XV, en su caso lo fue de 1732 a 1742.

Diane Adélaïde de Mailly-Nesle, Duchesse de Lauraguais (11 February 1713 – 3 November 1769 in Paris) was the third of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress on and off from 1742 to 1745.

Marguerite-Catherine Haynault (1736–1823) was a French noblewoman, mistress to Louis XV from 1759 to 1762. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

She was born in Paris as the daughter of the tobacco merchant Jean-Baptiste Haynault and Catherine Coupris de La Salle. In 1759, she was recruited to be a petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress) of the king in Parc-aux-Cerfs by Dominique Guillaume Lebel.

She served as the king's lover with Lucie-Madeleine d'Estaing, who lived in the Parc-aux-Cerfs at the same time and alternated with her, one replacing the other in the king's bed during their pregnancies; Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie was also housed there, while Anne Couppier de Romans had refused and was given her own house. She had two daughters with the king: Agnès-Louise de Montreuil (born 1760) and Anne-Louise de La Réale (born 1762), who were officially registered with two officers as fathers. Her daughters were both taken from her, raised in the convent school Chaillot, and given noble status, dowries and arranged marriages with noblemen as adults.

The king discontinued their relationship in 1762, and she was awarded a pension. In 1766, she married Blaise Arod, Marquis de Montmelas-Saint-Sorlin (d. 1815).

She left France during the French Revolution and lived abroad during the Reign of Terror. After the fall of Maximilien Robespierre, she returned to France, applied to be removed from the list of emigres and reclaimed her property.

Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, née à Paris en 1712 et morte le 9 septembre 1741, par son mariage comtesse de Vintimille (1739), est une favorite de Louis XV.

Marie Catherine Éléonore Bénard (Catherine Éléonore Bernard; 1740 – 23 February 1769) was a French lady-in-waiting and alleged petite maîtresse to King Louis XV of France in 1768-69.

Marie-Louise O'Murphy de Boisfaily, även kallad Mademoiselle de Morphy eller la belle Morphise, född 21 oktober 1737 i Rouen, död 11 december 1814 i Paris, var älskarinna till Ludvig XV av Frankrike. Hon hade denna roll 1753–1755, varefter hon ersattes i denna roll av sin syster Brigitte.

Anne Couppier de Romans (1737 –1808) was a petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress) of King Louis XV of France from 1760 to 1765.

Madame du Barry, geboren als Marie-Jeanne Bécu (Vaucouleurs, 19 augustus 1743 – Parijs, 8 december 1793), was een beroemde maîtresse van Lodewijk XV van Frankrijk. Zij was van bescheiden afkomst, maar haar relaties met rijke mannen vergrootten haar sociale status aanzienlijk.