Louis XV by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. The infant Louis with his governess, grandfather, great-grandfather and father, and the busts of Henry IV and Russian wife you up letra traducida XIII in the background.

Madame de Ventadour holds her charge’s reins. The portrait, painted for her, commemorates her part in saving the dynasty. Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, the eldest daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy. The Ordinance of Vincennes from 1374 required that the kingdom be governed by a regent until Louis reached the age of thirteen.

The title of Regent was given to his nearest relative, his cousin Philippe, the Duke of Orleans. Louis XIV, however, distrusted Philippe, who was a renowned soldier, but was regarded by the King as an atheist and libertine. On 9 September 1715, the Regent had the young King transported away from the court in Versailles to Paris, where the Regent had his own residence in the Palais Royal. On 12 September, he performed his first official act, opening the first lit de justice of his reign at the Palais Royal. Latin, Italian, history and geography, astronomy, mathematics and drawing, and cartography. The King charmed the visiting Russian Tsar by identifying the major rivers, cities and geographic features of Russia. Scottish economist and banker John Law was named controller-general of finances.