Louis, Grand Dauphin is remembered in public life for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Louis, Grand Dauphin as Dauphin of France (1661–1711), eldest legitime son and heir apparent (dead before succession) of Louis XIV, King of France, and of María Teresa de Austria, Queen consort of France.
Louis, Grand Dauphin was born at Fontainebleau in 1661. His recorded nationality is France.
The seventeenth century built the machinery of public intellectual life - societies, journals, correspondence networks - and reputations could be made at a distance.
He worked as prelate.
Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
His work was formally recognised with the Golden Rose.
Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Louis, Grand Dauphin died in 1711, aged 50. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Worked as prelate
