Régence

La Régence
Philippe with Madame de Parabère, Santerre, 1716
Philippe d'Orléans, Duke o Orléans
In office 1 September 1715 – 15 Februar 1723
Monarch	Louis XV
Prime Meenister	Guillaume Dubois (in 1723)

The Régence refers tae a time atween 1715 an 1723, when King Louis XV wis a minor an Fraunce wis governed bi Philippe d'Orléans, a nephew o Louis XIV o France, as Regent o the Kinrick.

Contemporary European rulers included Philip V o Spain, John V o Portugal, George I o Great Breetain, Charles VI, Haly Roman Emperor (faither o Empress Maria Theresa) an Victor Amadeus II o Sardinie, the maternal grandfaither o King Louis XV.

Chronology

1714

• 29 July 1714: the Duke o Maine an the Coont o Toulouse, Louis XIV's illegitimate sons (bi Madame de Montespan), are made Princes o the Bluid.

1715

• 1 September 1715: Louis XIV dies, his will entrusts the government o France to a regency council, with Philippe d'Orléans, Duke o Orléans aa honorary president and the Duke o Maine aa the real power, until the young Louis o Fraunce, Duke o Anjou reaches his majority (1723)
• 2 September 1715: the Duke o Orléans allies himsel with the Parlement de Paris, who cancelled Louis XIV's will. As a Prince o the Bluid, Philippe o Orléans haed been a member o the Parlement.
• 9 September: Body o Louis XIV taken to Saunt Denis; Louis XV sets off for Vincennes with the Regent, Madame de Ventadour, Villeroy, Toulouse and Maine; Philip V o Spain hears o his grandfaither's daith;
• 12 September: Philippe d'Orléans recognised Regent bi order o the Parlement;
• 15 September: Parlement claims the Droit de remontrance, the right to revoke a law made bi a King who haed died, further supporting the Regent's claim tae power.
• 1 October 1715: Polysynody was held in Paris; it was composed o the highest nobility o the country.
• 30 December: Removal o Louis XV frae the Château de Vincennes tae the Tuileries Palace;
• Louis XV put under the care o François de Neufville, Duke o Villeroy; Guillaume Delisle an the Cardinal de Fleury are put in charge o Louis' education.

1716

• 14 Mairch: Creation o the Chambre Ardente; an extraordinary court o justice in France, mainly held for the trials o heretics;
• 2 Mey: Philippe d'Orléans allows John Law tae found the Banque générale;
• 27 Jin: Birth o Mademoiselle de Chartres at the Palais Royal; she wis the last child o the Regent;
• 9/10 October: Alliance with Great Britain;

1717

• Triple Alliance (1717); a treaty atween the Dutch Republic, France an Great Britain, against Spain, attempting tae maintain the agreement o the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht;
• 31 Mairch: The Regent's second surviving dochter Louise Adélaïde takes the veil an becomes a nun under the name o Sœur Sainte Bathilde.
• 21 Mey: Arrival o Peter I o Roushie in Paris; he visits the King, Versailles, the Regent, his dochter Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans; he stays in Paris; he does not see the Duchess o Orléans despite her pleas; Peter stays at the Grand Trianon;
• 6 Juin 1717: Purchase o the Regent Diamond; later part o the French Croun Jewels;
• Julie: the Duke o Maine an the Coont o Toulouse are stripped o their rank o Princes o the Bluid bi the Parlement
• September: Foundation o the Compagnie d'Occident et du Mississippi;

1718

• Mairch: Arrival o the Duke o Lorraine an his consort, Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (sister o the Regent);
• 31 Mairch: Infanta Mariana Victoria o Spain born in Madrid; later betrothed tae Louis XV;
• 11 Aprile: Daith o the Dowager Duchess o Vendôme;
• 7 Mey: Daith o Mary o Modena at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye; she wis Queen consort o the exiled James II o Ingland;
• 2 August: Quadruple Alliance with Austrick, Fraunce, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain – aimed at revising (principally at Spain's expense) the treaties which ended the War o the Spaingie Succession;
• 24 September: end o the Polysynody an the reestablishment o ministers;
• 4 December: Banque générale becomes the Banque Royale;
• December Exposure o the Cellamare Conspiracy headed bi the Duke o Maine an his wife Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, which aimed at placing Philip V o Spain as regent o Fraunce with the help o the Spaingie Ambassador, the "Príncipe de Cellamare"; the Duke an Duchess are exiled frae coort an return in 1720 taethe Sceaux;

1719

• 9 Januar: Declaration o War with Spain;
• 15 Aprile: Daith o Madame de Maintenon at Saint-Cyr-l'École;
• Mey foundation o the East India Company by John Law;
• 21 Julie: Daith o Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans; dochter o the Regent who participated in the hectic nightlife o his coort, even during several pregnancies with different men.

1720

• 5 January: John Law made Controller General of Finances;
• 11 February: Mairiage o Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans tae Francesco d'Este, Hereditary Prince o Modena at the Tuileries Palace;
• March : Great Plague o Marseille;
• 21 March: Daith o Marie Anne de Bourbon, wife o the Duke o Bourbon;
• 26 March: Execution o the leaders o the Pontcallec Conspiracy against the Regency.

1721

• Publication o the Persian Letters bi Montesquieu; negotiations atween the Regent an Peter I o Roushie begin regarding the proposed mairiage o the Regents only legitimate son to a dochter o the Emperor, namely either the Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna o Roushie or the future Elizabeth o Roushie; plans fail an Louis d'Orléans mairys in 1724;
• 6 Januar: Arrest o Louis Dominique Bourguignon;
• 27 Mairch: Alliance o Spain and Fraunce;
• Mey : Visit o Mehmet Effendi; Turkish Ambassador;
• 18 Julie: Daith o Antoine Watteau;
• 17 September: Daith o the Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Grand Duchess o Tuscany; cousin o the Regent;
• 29 December : Birth o the future Madame de Pompadour;
• Marie Anne de Bourbon is put in charge o the Infanta's education in Fraunce;

1722

• The Dowager Duchess o Bourbon starts the construction o the Palais Bourbon in Paris tae a design bi the Italian architect Lorenzo Giardini, approved bi Jules Hardouin Mansart;
• 20 Januar: Mairiage o Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans to the future Louis I o Spain;
• 10 Mairch: Arrival o Infanta Mariana Victoria o Spain in Paris; dochter o Philip V o Spain an Elisabeth Farnese;
• 15 Juin: Louis XV and the court return to Versailles; the Regent takes the auld apartments o his dead cousin, the late Louis, Dauphin o Fraunce (1661–1711);
• 22 August: Guillaume Dubois made the Prime Minister o the Regent;
• 25 October: Coronation o Louis XV at the Cathedral o Notre Dame, Reims;
• 8 December: Daith o Elisabeth Charlotte o the Palatinate (Madame), mither o the Regent;

1723

• Louis XV orders plans for the future Salon d'Hercule to begin;
• 2 Februar: Secret mairiage o the Coont o Toulouse an Marie Victoire de Noailles (already widowed dochter in law o Madame de Montespan) in Paris; their marriage was only announced after the daith o the Regent;
• 16 Februar: Majority o Louis XV;
• 23 Februar: Daith o Anne o Bavarie, Dowager Princess o Condé;
• 10 August: Daith o Dubois; Role later took on bi Louis Henri, Duke o Bourbon, Prince o Condé;
• 2 December: Daith o the Regent at the Palace o Versailles;