Editing Louis XV (section)

==Patron of architecture and arts==
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[[File:Petit Trianon.JPG|thumb|right|250px|The [[Petit Trianon]] by [[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]] (1764)]]
Louis was a major patron of architecture; he spent more money on buildings over the course of his reign than Louis XIV. His major architectural projects were the work of his favorite court architect, [[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]]. They included the [[Ecole Militaire]] (1751–1770); the Place Louis XV (now [[Place de la Concorde]] (1763–83); the [[Petit Trianon]] at Versailles (1762–64), and the opera theater of the Palace of Versailles. Louis began construction of the Church of Saint-Geneviève, now the [[Pantheon (Paris)|Pantheon]] (1758–90). He also constructed monumental squares and surrounding buildings in the centers of [[Nancy, France|Nancy]], [[Bordeaux]], and [[Rennes]]. His workshops produced fine furniture, porcelain, tapestries and other goods in the [[Louis XV Style]] which were exported to all the capital cities of Europe.<ref name="Guéganic 2008, pp. 74–75">Guéganic (2008), pp. 74–75.</ref>

The King, the Queen and her daughters were major patrons of music. The queen and her children played the [[clavecin]], under the instruction of [[François Couperin]]. The young [[Mozart]] came to Paris and wrote two sonatas for clavecin and violin which he dedicated to Madame Victoire, the King's daughter.<ref>Bluche (2003), p. 126.</ref> [[Jean-Marie Leclair]] was appointed Director of the Music of the Chapel and the Apartments in 1733, Leclair resigned in 1736 following a dispute with another royal appointee [[Jean-Pierre Guignon]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.naxos.com/MainSite/BlurbsReviews/?itemcode=8.574381&catnum=574381&filetype=AboutThisRecording&language=English |title=Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Op. 5, Nos. 9-12 |date=June 2022 |last=Butterfield |first=Adrian |type=CD |publisher=Naxos |series=Naxos Leclair Violin Sonatas |id=Naxos Catalogue No. 8.574381}}</ref> The most important musical figure of the reign was [[Jean Philippe Rameau]], who was the court composer through the 1740s and 1750s, and wrote more than thirty operas for Louis and his court.<ref>Guéganic (2008), pp. 78–79.</ref> The King himself, like his grandfather Louis XIV, was taught to dance ballet but danced only once in public, in 1725.

Louis XV, guided largely by [[Madame de Pompadour]], was the most important art patron of the period. He commissioned [[François Boucher]] to paint pastoral scenes for his apartments in Versailles, and gave him the title of First Painter of the King in 1765. Other artists patronized by the King included [[Jean-Baptiste Oudry]], [[Maurice Quentin de la Tour]], [[Jean Marc Nattier]], and the sculptor [[Edme Bouchardon]]. Bouchardon created the monumental statue of Louis XV on horseback which was the centerpiece of Place Louis XV until it was pulled down during the Revolution.<ref name="Guéganic 2008, pp. 74–75"/>