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The head of King Louis XVI being cut off by a guillotine. Etching by James Gillray, 1793.

King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette kneel in prayer as Louis becomes king of France on the death of Louis XV. Line engraving with etching by F.A.B. Audibran after J. David, 1883.

The education of King Louis XV: Venus hands him over to a centaur for education in manly ways. Etching by L. Cars, ca. 1757, after F. Boucher.

Harangue faite au roy à Versailles le mecredi 14. septembre 1735 / par Monseigneur l'evesque comte de Valence, pour la clôture de l'Assemblée generale du clergé.

Jupiter (Zeus), disguised as a satyr, removes the clothing of Antiope as he prepares for intercourse with her. Engraving by B. Baron after Titian.

Saint John the Evangelist. Engraving by N. Larmessin after Raphael.

Festivities held at the Palazzo Mancini in Rome on the occasion of the recovery of Louis XV after a serious illness in Metz. Etching by the pensioners (scholarship-holders) of the French Academy in Rome, 1744.

Deo favente, imperante Ludovico XV / Antonius de Jussieu ... in Horto Regio Botanices Professor, plantas omnes ... hunc in Hortum adsportatas ac educatas indigitando nuncupabit, earumque vires edocebit.

[Louis XV, king of France correspondence].

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Louis XV of France

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Deo favente, imperante Ludovico XV / Antonius de Jussieu ... in Horto Regio Botanices Professor, plantas omnes ... hunc in Hortum adsportatas ac educatas indigitando nuncupabit, earumque vires edocebit.

[Louis XV, king of France correspondence].

Deo favente, imperante Ludovico XV / Antonius de Jussieu ... in Horto Regio Botanices Professor, plantas omnes ... hunc in Hortum adsportatas ac educatas indigitando nuncupabit, earumque vires edocebit.