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(1715-1774) When the Sun King finally died, the heavy Baroque style was as exhausted as the overtaxed peasants. Louis’ great-grandson, Louis XV took the throne in 1715, just as Paris was beginning a new intellectual period known as the Enlightenment. Some of the great hôtels (mansions) of this period include the Hôtel de Matignon, where […]