Cardinal Fleury Takes Power in France
April 1, 1726
The gentle, patient tutor of Louis XV, now seventy-two, quietly eased the Bourbon dukes aside and took control of French government. For seventeen years, until his death at ninety, he pursued peace, stable finances, and colonial expansion. France under Fleury enjoyed one of its last genuinely prosperous generations before the Revolution.
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