من واعد لويس الخامس عشر ملك فرنسا؟

لويس الخامس عشر (بالفرنسية: Louis XV de France) ولد في 15 شباط 1710 وتوفي في 10 أيار عام 1774 وهو ملك فرنسا منذ الأول من أيلول عام 1715.

ولد لويس الخامس عشر باسم (Louis, duc d'Anjou) وهو الابن الثالث للدوق لويس، دوق بورغوندي و زوجته ماري أديلايد.

تولى لويس الخامس عشر العرش الفرنسي بعد وفاة الملك لويس الرابع عشر، أحد أعظم ملوك فرنسا، حيث حكم فرنسا ومنطقة نافارا ذات الحكم الذاتي منذ العام 1715 م. وحتى وفاته، عانى الملك الفرنسي من وفاة جميع أفراد أسرته، كما تمتع بسمعة طيبة في بداية فترة حكمه لفرنسا وبالرغم من هذا فإن سياسته الخاصة بالإصلاح في النظام الملكي الفرنسي وسياسته الخارجية على الساحة الأوروبية أفقدتاه دعما شعبيا وجعلته أحد أكثر الملوك غير الشعبيين في فرنسا.

فيما عامل المؤرخون لويس الخامس عشر بقسوة في كتاباتهم، إلا أن كُتّاباً في العصر الحديث تحدثوا عن كونه من أفضل من حكم فرنسا في وقته، كما كان ذكيا ليحكم جيدا أكبر مملكة في أوروبا.

و رغم القناع الذي ارتداه كملك «جبار» إلا أن مما يحسب له أن له أعمالاً لحساب الفقراء ظهرت لاحقا من فترة حكمه.

تزوج لويس الخامس عشر من ماري ليزينسكا ابنة ملك بولندا ستانيسلاف ليزينسكي وأنجب منها عشرة أولاد منهم الدوفين لويس الذي توفي لاحقا ولويز إليزابيث، دوقة بارما القرينة وماري أديلايد التي أصبحت دوقة لوفوا لاحقاً.

كما كانت له علاقة عاطفية المخفية مع مدام دو بومبادور جلبت له انتقادات واسعة.

وصلت مراحل دعم الفنون والآداب والحرفيين في عصره إلى ذروتها وكانت فرنسا من أكثر الدول الأوروبية وقتها إضافة إلى روسيا في دعم الفنون والآداب إلا أن التجربة الفرنسية نالت إعجاب وحسد الأوروبيين وقتها.

و حتى اليوم بعد ما يزيد عن 250 عاما لا يزال أسلوب الفن والتصميم الذي اتبع في عصر لويس الخامس عشر هو الأسلوب المفضل في البلدان الغنية والمعروفة في جميع أنحاء العالم.

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).

Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux (French pronunciation: [maʁi an də maji nɛl]; 5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744) was the youngest of five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become mistresses of King Louis XV of France. Marie Anne was the King's mistress from 1742 until 1744.

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour et duchesse de Menars, dite Madame de Pompadour, fut une maîtresse en titre du roi Louis XV, née le 29 décembre 1721 à Paris et morte le 15 avril 1764 au château de Versailles.

Introduite à la cour par relations, elle est remarquée par le roi Louis XV et devient sa maîtresse en titre pendant six ans, de 1745 à 1751.

Louis XV lui fait construire le Petit Trianon ainsi que le château de Bellevue, comme résidence, et lui offre le domaine de Pompadour, ce qui lui permet de devenir marquise et d'acquérir la noblesse. Ses origines bourgeoises lui attirent des critiques de la part de l'aristocratie.

À partir des années 1750, la marquise n'est plus la maîtresse du roi, mais conserve un ascendant en tant que confidente et amie. En ce sens, elle encourage l'aménagement de la place Louis XV — actuelle place de la Concorde — ou la création de la manufacture de porcelaine de Sèvres, proche de sa résidence de Bellevue. M^me de Pompadour apprécie particulièrement l'architecture et les arts décoratifs. Elle acquiert d'ailleurs en 1753 l’hôtel d’Évreux à Paris, aujourd'hui nommé palais de l'Élysée. La marquise s'intéresse aussi à la littérature et encourage la publication des deux premiers tomes de l'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert.

De santé fragile, elle meurt d'une congestion pulmonaire, âgée seulement de 42 ans.

Lucie-Madeleine d’Estaing (1743–1826), was a French noblewoman, mistress to Louis XV from 1760 to 1763. She was the king's Petite maîtresse (unofficial mistress), not his Maîtresse-en-titre (official mistress).

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 King Louis XV 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-Norway, 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 King Louis XV. 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, née à Paris, paroisse Saint-Sulpice, le 16 mars 1710, morte à Paris le 30 mars 1751, fut une favorite de Louis XV. Elle était la fille de Louis III de Mailly-Nesle, marquis de Nesle, et de son épouse Armande Félice de La Porte Mazarin, elle-même petite-fille d'Hortense Mancini et arrière-petite-nièce de Mazarin.

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 in 1768-69.

Marie-Louise O'Murphy (French pronunciation: [ma.ʁi.lwiz ɔ‿.myʁ.fi]; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814) was a French model who was the youngest lesser mistress (petites maîtresses) of King Louis XV, and the model for François Boucher's painting The Blonde Odalisque, also known as The Resting Girl. She was also variously called Mademoiselle de Morphy, La Belle Morphise, Louise Morfi and Marie-Louise Morphy de Boisfailly.

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

Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (French: [baʁi]; 19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason—particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution. She is also known as "Mademoiselle Vaubernier" ([vobɛʁnje]).

In 1768, when the king wished to make Jeanne maîtresse-en-titre, etiquette required her to be the wife of a high courtier, so she was hastily married on 1 September 1768 to Comte Guillaume du Barry. The wedding ceremony was accompanied by a false birth certificate created by Jean-Baptiste du Barry, the comte's older brother. The certificate made Jeanne appear younger by three years and obscured her poor background. Henceforth, she was recognised as the king's official paramour.

Her arrival at the French royal court scandalised some, because she had been a courtesan and came from humble beginnings. She was shunned by many including Marie Antoinette, whose contempt for Jeanne caused alarm and dissension at court. On New Year's Day 1772, Marie Antoinette deigned to speak to Jeanne; her remark, "There are many people at Versailles today", was enough to take the edge off the dispute, though many still disapproved of Jeanne.

Decades later, during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, Jeanne was imprisoned over accusations of treason by her servant Zamor. She was executed by guillotine on 8 December 1793. Her body was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery. The fabulous gems which she had smuggled to London were sold at auction in 1795.