I'm practically all the family he's got. And that makes it clear to everyone that they can't safely mess with me.
...wow, this guy is pretty cool :P
Reminder of how quickly little Louis XV lost all his family (thus psychologically affecting him, no doubt):
1711: Grandpa dies of measles. Grandma is long gone. 1712: Mom, Dad, and older brother die of smallpox within a month of each other. 1714: Uncle dies from a hunting accident. 1715: Great-grandpa Louis XIV dies of gangrene.
Everyone closely related is either dead or foreign royalty at this point, leaving Madame de Ventadour as the main surrogate mother figure and Fleury as the surrogate (grand)father figure.
Incidentally, dying-of-measles Mom is the daughter of Victor Amadeus in one of the Franco-Savoyard marriages arranged in the hopes of cementing one of VA's side-switchings. The other such marriage being Marie-Louise and Philip V.
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Re: 1730 Decision-making Characters: Cardinal Fleury
Date: 2022-01-03 11:53 pm (UTC)...wow, this guy is pretty cool :P
Reminder of how quickly little Louis XV lost all his family (thus psychologically affecting him, no doubt):
1711: Grandpa dies of measles. Grandma is long gone.
1712: Mom, Dad, and older brother die of smallpox within a month of each other.
1714: Uncle dies from a hunting accident.
1715: Great-grandpa Louis XIV dies of gangrene.
Everyone closely related is either dead or foreign royalty at this point, leaving Madame de Ventadour as the main surrogate mother figure and Fleury as the surrogate (grand)father figure.
Incidentally, dying-of-measles Mom is the daughter of Victor Amadeus in one of the Franco-Savoyard marriages arranged in the hopes of cementing one of VA's side-switchings. The other such marriage being Marie-Louise and Philip V.