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3 total sentences available.
During the reigns of Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, France supported the English colonists in their resistance against the London government not because of an admiration for democracy but because the French wanted to weaken the British, who, for a long period of time, had been the enemies of the Government of France.
Source: tatoeba (4268390)
Louis XV was the king of France from 1715 to 1774.
Source: tatoeba (9849420)
Would Louis XV not have given up all his kingdom to rise from his coffin and have three days of youth and life?
Source: tatoeba (11176294)
Closest matches include 15, 15, fifteen, fifteen.
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