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18th Century

            
            
             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. .
             According to the Palatine princess, govern it <>. The vision refined and distanced d'Antoine Watteau, as the one of its émules, John Baptist Pater and Nicolas Lancret, symbolizes perfectly the spirit of the time. But, France grandsons govern it preserves, despite its floods, a certain idea of the magnitude. It also chooses for first painter Antoine Coypel , a representative of this as one called then the big kind.
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             John Law, Scottish banker emigrant in France, had become the financial counselor of Louis XV. The king went besides bitterly to regret, by the continuation, that Law not fût rather remained in his natal country! This is at the instigation of Law that was created the Royal Bank, commencement called Bank of Law. This bank received in deposits all public income, against which these she emitted bills in quantities always growing. Law was equally to the origin of the west Company (become later the French Company of India), that checked the whole commerce exterior of France, and notably the one of the Louisiana and New France.


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