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Merrick, Jeffrey (1986). "Politics in the Pulpit: Ecclesiastical Discourse on the Death of Louis XV". History of European Ideas. 7 (2): 149–160. doi:10.1016/0191-6599(86)90069-0. ISSN0191-6599.
Rombouts, Stephen (1993). "Art as Propaganda in Eighteenth-Century France: The Paradox of Edme Bouchardon's Louis XV". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 27 (2): 255–282. doi:10.2307/2739383. JSTOR2739383.
Both children are officially recognized by their mother's husband, although it is alleged that the King himself was the real father. The coevals attribute the paternity of both children to Louis XV for, according to documents from the Military Archive, Françoise de Châlus' husband had been wounded in the War of the Austrian Succession (1747) becoming from that moment unable to have any offspring. The baptism record of Louis, Comte de Narbonne-Lara is another indication of that paternity: "On 25 of August 1755, received the baptism at the Chapel of the King, from the Very High and Very Powerful Lord, Monseigneur Charles-Antoine de La Roche-Aymon, Archbishop-Primate of Narbonne, President of the States-Generals of the Province of Languedoc, Commander of the Order of the Holy Spirit. The Godfather was the Most High and Most powerful Prince Louis Auguste of France, Duke of Berry, and the Godmother the Most High and Most Powerful Princess Madame Marie Adélaïde of France." His wife had become the King's mistress. Not only was it noted that he was named Louis but also his contemporaries remarked on the similarities between the young Louis and the King.
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Merrick, Jeffrey (1986). "Politics in the Pulpit: Ecclesiastical Discourse on the Death of Louis XV". History of European Ideas. 7 (2): 149–160. doi:10.1016/0191-6599(86)90069-0. ISSN0191-6599.
Jassie, Kenneth N.; Merrick, Jeffrey (1994). We Don't Have a King: Popular Protest and the Image of the Illegitimate King in the Reign of Louis XV. Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750–1850: Proceedings. Vol. 23. pp. 211–219. ISSN0093-2574.
