... hinder his rule. The second thing that Louis XV did was to form an alliance with Austria going into the Seven years war, which was not very clever since Austria and France were traditional enemies and no alliance would make peace between the peoples. The huge defeats at the battle of Rosbach further fuelled the contempt and his decision to arrange his son's marriage to an Austrian girl automatically put his son in a difficult in future life. Sleaze was another big thing Louis XV took unto. He had many mistresses, but ithe type of mistresses he had especially proved foolish. One of his mistresses was Madame Du Barry, a high-class prostitute and this legacy of sleaze gave Louis XV1 a reputation of being unfaithful, although he was which was unfair. The people thought Louis XV1 was untrustworthy and so led to delegitimization. However, Louis XVl only provided a basis for failure, ...

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