What is Régence?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = ''La Régence'' | image = Philippe, duc d'Orléans, régent de France (1674-1723).jpg | office = Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans | imagesize = 200px | term_start = 1 September 1715 | term_end = 15 February 1723 | monarch = [[Louis XV of France]] | caption = Philippe with [[Marie-Madeleine de Parabère]] as Athena; [[Jean-Baptiste Santerre]], 1716 | predecessor = | primeminister = [[Guillaume Dubois]] (in 1723) | successor = | alma_mater = | }} The '''''Régence''''' ({{IPA-fr|ʁeʒɑ̃s}}, ''Regency'') refers to a time between 1715 and 1723, when King [[Louis XV]] was a minor and [[France]] was governed by Philippe d'Orléans, a nephew of Louis XIV o France, as '''''Regent of the Kingdom'''''. In French the period is also called ''le Régence de Philippe'Orléans''. Contemporary European rulers included [[Philip V of Spain]], [[John V of Portugal]], [[George I of Great Britain]], [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] (faither o [[Maria Theresa|Empress Maria Theresa]]) and [[Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia]], the maternal grandfather of King Louis XV. ==Chronology== ===1714=== *'''29 July 1714''': the [[Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duke o Maine|Duke o Maine]] an the [[Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Coont o Toulouse|Coont o Toulouse]], [[Louis XIV]]'s illegitimate sons (bi [[Madame de Montespan]]), are made [[Prince du Sang|Princes o the Bluid]]. ===1715=== *'''1 September 1715''': Louis XIV dies, his will entrusts the government of France to a regency council, with [[Philippe, Duke o Orléans, Regent o Fraunce|Philippe d'Orléans, Duke o Orléans]] aa honorary president and the [[Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duke o Maine|Duke of Maine]] as the real power, until the young [[Louis XV|Louis o Fraunce, Duke o Anjou]] reaches his majority (1723) *'''2 September 1715''': the Duke of Orléans allies himself with the '''[[Parlement|Parlement de Paris]]''', who cancelled Lo