Louis XV, the penultimate King of France, was born: 15th Feb. 1710 (300 years ago today)
“Popular legend holds that Louis said, “After me, the flood” (“Après moi, le déluge”). In fact this quotation is more precisely attributed to Madame de Pompadour, although it is not certain that even she ever said it. The remark was supposedly made on 5 November 1757 after Frederick the Great had defeated the French and Austrian armies at the Battle of Rossbach. It suggests that nothing matters once you are dead and has also been interpreted as a premonition of the French Revolution”
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