• Antoine, Michel, Louis XV (1989), ˙Hachette Pluriel, Paris (bằng tiếng Pháp); ISBN 2-01-017818-1
• Bluche, François, Louis XV (2003), Éditions Perrin, Paris (bằng tiếng Pháp); ISBN 978-2-262-02021-7
• Ducher, Robert, Caractéristique des Styles, (1988), Flammarion, Paris (In French); ISBN 2-08-011539-1
• Guéganic, Anne-Laure, Louis XV: Le Règne fastueux, (2008), Éditions Atlas, Paris (bằng tiếng Pháp); ISBN 978-2-7312-3798-6

Đọc thêm

• Bernier, Olivier. Louis the Beloved: The Life of Louis XV (1984) 261 pp.
• Engels, Jens Ivo. "Denigrer, Esperer, Assumer La Realite. Le Roi de France perçu par ses Sujets, 1680–1750" ["Disparaging, Hoping, Taking on Reality: the French King as Perceived by His Subjects, 1680–1750"]. Revue D'histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 2003 50(3): 96–126.
• Jones, Colin. The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715–99 (2002). excerpt and text search
• Justus, Kevin Lane. "A Fractured Mirror: The Royal Portraiture of Louis XV and the Search for a Successful Image through Architecture, or, Versailles Is the Thing in Which We Will Catch the Character of the King." PhD dissertation U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2002. 417 pp. DAI 2003 63(11): 3766-A. DA3070864 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Ancien Régime: A History of France 1610–1774 (1999), survey by leader of the Annales School ISBN 0631211969
• Perkins, James Breck. France under Louis XV (2 vol 1897) online vol 1; online vol 2
• Treasure, Geoffrey. The Making of Modern Europe, 1648–1780 (3rd ed. 2003). pp 297–331.
• Woodbridge, John D. Revolt in Prerevolutionary France: The Prince de Conti's Conspiracy against Louis XV (1995). 242 pp.
• Scholarly bibliography by Colin Jones (2002)

Nhân tình

• Haslip, Joan. Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty. (1992). 224 pp.
• Jones, Colin. Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress. London: National Gallery Publ., 2002. 176 pp.
• Lever, Evelyne. Madame de Pompadour. (2002). 320 pp.
• Mitford, Nancy. Madame de Pompadour (1954) 312pp.

Nguồn chính

• Du Barry, Jeanne Vaubernier, Jeanne Baecu. Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry: With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV (1903) online edition; also ISBN 1406923133