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Louis XV of France

1710 - 1774

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Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Regent of France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis XV of France has received more than 5,056,844 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Louis XV of France is the 45th most popular politician (up from 90th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from France (up from 31st in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Politician.

Louis XV was the king of France from 1715 to 1774. He is most famous for his extravagant lifestyle and his controversial marriage to Marie Antoinette.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 86.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 91

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis XV of France ranks 45 out of 19,576. Before him are Hillary Clinton, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Andrew Johnson, Martin Van Buren, and Ulysses S. Grant. After him are Mikhail Gorbachev, Pericles, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Nero, Justinian I, and Josip Broz Tito.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, Louis XV of France ranks 1. After him are Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, Muhammad bin Saud, András Hadik, Thomas Reid, Thomas Simpson, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Domenico Alberti, and Thomas Arne. Among people deceased in 1774, Louis XV of France ranks 1. After him are Pope Clement XIV, François Quesnay, Charles Marie de La Condamine, Robert Clive, Niccolò Jommelli, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Jacques-François Blondel, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Oliver Goldsmith, and Johann Friedrich Agricola.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis XV of France ranks 13 out of 6,770. Before him are Victor Hugo (1802), Louis Pasteur (1822), Louis XVI of France (1754), Claude Monet (1840), Jules Verne (1828), and Montesquieu (1689). After him are Molière (1622), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alain Delon (1935), and Henri Matisse (1869).

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Among POLITICIANS In France

Among politicians born in France, Louis XV of France ranks 4. Before him are Napoleon (1769), Louis XIV of France (1638), and Louis XVI of France (1754). After him are Napoleon II (1811), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Napoleon III (1808), Henry IV of France (1553), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Louis XIII of France (1601), Philip IV of France (1268), and Cardinal Richelieu (1585).

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