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Louis XV: The Failure of Bourbon Power: The King Who Inherited Glory and Left a Crisis

by Gordon J. MacKenzie
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798254522706
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 204
  • Original Price: GBP 12.07
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 254 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Royalty

Louis XV inherited one of the most powerful monarchies in Europe.

He left it weakened, doubted, and dangerously exposed.

This is not the story of a king brought down by revolution. It is the story of a king who allowed decline to settle slowly into the foundations of power until the monarchy itself no longer inspired the confidence it needed to survive.

Across a long and complex reign, Louis XV presided over military failure, court dependence, financial strain, political conflict, and the slow erosion of royal authority. France did not collapse under him. But under his rule, the Bourbon monarchy lost something deeper than territory or money. It lost emotional and symbolic force.

This book examines how a monarchy can remain intact while quietly weakening from within. It follows Louis XV through Versailles, war, debt, Pompadour, the parlements, and the changing public mind of eighteenth-century France, showing how royal power faded not through one great disaster, but through years of postponement, retreat, and diminishing belief.

Serious, readable, and sharply focused, The Failure of Bourbon Power: The King Who Inherited Glory and Left a Crisis is a study of how great regimes are not always destroyed in a moment. Sometimes they are hollowed out over time, until collapse becomes the inheritance of the next generation.

For readers of French history, monarchy, political decline, and the hidden causes of revolution.

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