Editing Louis XV (section)

===Further reading===
* Engels, Jens Ivo. "Denigrer, Esperer, Assumer La Realite. Le Roi de France perçu par ses Sujets, 1680–1750" ["Disparaging, Hoping, Taking on Reality: the French King as Perceived by His Subjects, 1680–1750"]. ''Revue D'histoire Moderne et Contemporaine'' 2003 50(3): 96–126, in French
* Gooch, G.P. ''Louis XV'' (1976), scholarly biography
* Justus, Kevin Lane. "A Fractured Mirror: The Royal Portraiture of Louis XV and the Search for a Successful Image through Architecture, or, Versailles Is the Thing in Which We Will Catch the Character of the King." PhD dissertation U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2002. DAI 2003 63(11): 3766-A. DA3070864 Fulltext: [[ProQuest Dissertations & Theses]]
* [[James Breck Perkins|Perkins, James Breck]]. ''France under Louis XV'' (2 vol 1897) [https://www.questia.com/read/95943782 online vol 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629174549/https://www.questia.com/read/95943782 |date=29 June 2011 }}; [https://www.questia.com/read/92007973 online vol 2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629174809/https://www.questia.com/read/92007973 |date=29 June 2011 }}
* Treasure, Geoffrey. ''The Making of Modern Europe, 1648–1780'' (3rd ed. 2003). pp 297–331. [https://archive.org/details/makingofmoderneu0000trea/page/n7/mode/2up online]
* Woodbridge, John D. ''Revolt in Prerevolutionary France: The Prince de Conti's Conspiracy against Louis XV'' (1995).
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725101858/http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cdhjones/documents/gn_pdf.pdf Scholarly bibliography by Colin Jones (2002)]