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Louis III de Mailly-Nesle

1689–1767

Born
27 Feb 1689
Country of birth
Kingdom of France, today France
Died
7 Sep 1767, Dijon
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A life in time

  1. Born

    Birth

  2. Child born: Pauline Félicité de Mailly

    Birth, Paris

  3. Died · Dijon

    Death, Dijon

What was it like?

The world around 1689: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Common women’s clothing colors were mostly dark, with black, gray, and brown making up 45 percent of garments, while red accounted for 21 percent.

Known for

Louis III de Mailly foi um nobre francês do século XVIII, que provinha de uma das famílias mais antigas da nobreza francesa.

During their lifetime

  1. 1693

    Paris Famine (1693–1694)

    During the famine of 1693–1694, bread was sold at two sous a loaf to poor Parisians as up to 1,500 people died daily from hunger and disease.

  2. 1709

    The Great Winter of 1709

    The Great Winter of 1709 brought extreme cold and severe famine to France, marking one of the century's worst economic crises.

  3. 1716

    Foundation of Law's Bank in 1716

    John Law established the Banque Générale in 1716, which later issued paper bank notes guaranteed by the king to stimulate the economy.

  4. 1720

    The Great Plague of Marseilles

    The Great Plague of Marseilles, the last major plague epidemic in France, devastated the region between 1720 and 1721.

  5. 1738

    Introduction of road labor corvee

    In 1738, the crown introduced the corvee, a system of forced labor requiring peasants to build and maintain the royal roads.

  6. 1748

    Abolition of the royal galleys

    In 1748, King Louis XV abolished the galleys, transferring convicts to coastal prisons or ships, ending a long-standing form of harsh penal servitude.

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