Eighteenth Century

The Regency one (1715 - 1723)

In 1715, Louis XV has only five years. The Orleans duke, Nephew of Louis XIV, becomes then govern. Versailles is abandoned to the Paris profit. In reaction against the taxed harshness during the last years of the preceding reign opens a period marked by an institutional, religious liberalization and moral: <> (Folk song). Thus the Italian comedy, forbidden previously for judged licentious, is she again authorized. She will inspire Antoine Watteau, John Baptist Pater and Nicolas Lancret. Politically, the high aristocracy, of which the duke of Holy Simon is the one of the more famous representatives, and the Parliament, impede the government, some mounds to the social immobilisme and to a financial one particularly difficult position, stressed by the failure of the system of the state banker John Law.
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Posted by: Alexander Bartfield

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