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Louis XV,
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became the king and ruled for a very long time.
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Well the decay of absolutism and royal authority continued,
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and we are really entering now, with 1715, one--
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probably the longest in modern history--
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the longest epoch of decadence and sexual permissiveness.
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It's an interesting kind of--
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seemed to recur in human history, right?
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Then you had a similar kind of permissiveness
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and sort of decadence--
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1890s until 1914;
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probably 1930.