18 kings of France bore this name, beginning with Louis le Débonnaire, son of Charlemagne. Apart from Louis XIV (Louis le Grand), the most noteworthy are:

Louis IX (Saint Louis), leader of the Third Crusade [see Joinville];
Louis XI, who fought the Burgundian duke Charles le Téméraire and was responsible for the extension and consolidation of French territory;
Louis XIII (le Juste), whose first minister was Richelieu;
Louis XV (le Bien-Aimé), whose long reign saw growing economic prosperity and the rise of the philosophes;
Louis XVI, who fell victim to the Revolution, which he only half-heartedly accepted, and was guillotined as ‘Louis Capet’;
Louis XVIII, grandson of Louis XV, who spent the Revolutionary and Napoleonic years in exile, returning in 1814 [see Restoration].

The so-called Louis XVII, son of Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, died in prison in 1795 and never reigned.

1682–1712, titular duke of Burgundy; grandson of King Louis XIV of France. He became heir to the throne on the death (1711) of his father, Louis the Great Dauphin. François de Fénelon was his tutor and wrote Télémaque for his use. Louis was the rallying point of the opposition to Louis XIV—reactionary nobles and liberals alike—and miracles were expected of him. When he died suddenly during an epidemic (possibly of scarlet fever), rumors of poisoning circulated. His death is described in a famous passage in the memoirs of the duc de Saint-Simon. He was the father of King Louis XV of France and the brother of King Philip V of Spain.

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