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Louis XV

Louis XV. After Louis died Louis XV comes to power at the age of five Abiding to his great-grandfather’s desire, Louis XV rules with absolutism in mind Expanding the state’s activity: Policing

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Louis XV

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  1. Louis XV • After Louis died Louis XV comes to power at the age of five • Abiding to his great-grandfather’s desire, Louis XV rules with absolutism in mind • Expanding the state’s activity: • Policing • Instead of public order kept by basic polices enforced with the army, Louis created professional police forces • 3,000 police officers spread among France’s population • Marks the beginning of a modern, professional police network • Poor Relief by the State: • Increasingly, aiding poor children and the elderly in France became more essential • The needy were housed, clothed and fed in urban hospitals • This marks the beginning of a modern state sponsored welfare system but some say that it marked the segregation of the poor and the rest of society

  2. Louis XV Continued • Religious Policy: • Jansenists were still being condemned • The Parlement of Paris and later the Four Gallican Articles declared that the pope was illegally intruding into the French affairs • 1715- The Duke of Orleans, Louis’s regent, permits the parlements to criticize royal policy • By 1730, the Parlement of Paris is openly defying Louis of the issue regarding the Jansenists and disagreeing that the king alone should make law • There was no religious peace in the kingdom at this time • Though despite this failure, Louis’s abolutionism in France made the state more demanding and responsive

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