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—With Jeanne Perray:
 
*Amélie Florimond de Norville (Saint-Eustache, Paris, 11 January 1753 – 27 September 1790). Registered one day after her birth (12 January 1753) as a daughter of certain burgeois from Paris called ''Louis Florimond de Norville'', a non-existentexisted person; the paternity of the King is supossed by later facts.<ref>In front of the notary Mr. Arnoult, on 12 January 1772 was granted to Amélie de Norville a pension of 2,000 livres. ''Aux Archives nationales, études XIV, 408, et XXXV, 728''. In her marriage contract dated 30 June 1780 was accorded a pension of 3,000 livres from the Royal Treasure to Amélie and her future children. After the Bourbon Restoration, this decision was confirmed on 4 December 1815. ''Courcelles, Histoires généalogiques des Pairs de France, vol 5, page 52''.</ref> Married on 1 June 1780 with Ange de Faure 1739-1824, with whom she had two children.
 
—With [[Marie-Louise O'Murphy]] (21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814), an Irish adventuress:
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—With Marguerite-Catherine Haynault (11 September 1736 – 17 March 1823):
 
*Agnès Louise de Montreuil (Saint-Sulpice, Paris, 20 May 1760 – Montmelas, 2 September 1837). Registered as a daughter of certain ''Louis de Montreuil, old Official of cavalry'', a non-existenexisted person, the paternity of the King is supported by further evidence.<ref>In August 1774 King [[Louis XVI]] granted her letters of Official Recognition of Nobility, and previously Louis XV secured for her a capital of 223,000 livres who reported an annual revenue of 24,300 livres. In addition, Louis XVI personally signed her marriage contract.</ref> Married on 9 December 1778 with Gaspard d'Arod de Montmelas (brother-in-law of her own mother), with whom she had four children.
 
*Anne Louise de La Réale (Saint-Paul, Paris, 17 November 1762 – Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 30 April 1831). Registered as a daughter of certain ''Antoine Louis de la Réale, old Captain of cavalry'', a non-existenexisted person, the paternity of the King is supported by further evidence.<ref>In August 1774 King Louis XVI granted her letters of Official Recognition of Nobility, identical to her sister. She also received from Louis XV a capital of 223,000 livres who reported an annual revenue of 24,300 livres. In addition, at the age of fifteen (1777), she received the further amount of 12,000 livres as a renewed pension.</ref> Married on 28 August 1780 with René Guillaume Paul Gabriel Etienne de Geslin, Comte de Geslin, with whom she had six children.
 
—With Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (10 May 1743 – 7 April 1826), a half-sister of the [[Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing|Admiral d'Estaing]]:
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Both children are registered as daughters of certains ''Louis Auguste, Old Official, and citizen Lucie'', both non-existen persons. In August 1774 Agnès and Aphrodite received from Louis XVI their letters of recognition of nobility (''demoiselles issue de la plus ancienne noblesse de France'').
 
—With Anne Coppier de Romans (19 June 1737 – 27 December 1808), Baroness de Meilly-Coulonge:
 
*Louis Aimé of Bourbon (Passy, Paris, 13 January 1762 – Rome, 28 February 1787), called the ''Abbot of Bourbon''; he was the only one of the illegitimate children of Louis XV who was officially recognized.<ref>Evelyne Lever: ''Le crépuscule des rois - chronique 1757-1789'', Fayard 2013, p. 68.</ref> Abbot of Saint Vincent de Metz, French Ambassador in Rome since 1785. He died of [[smallpox]].
 
—With Jeanne Louise Tiercelin de La Colleterie (26 November 1746 – 5 July 1779), called ''Madame de Bonneval'':
 
*Benoît Louis Le Duc (7 February 1764 – 1837). Registered as a son of ''Louis Le Duc, Old Official of cavalry and lady Julie de la Colleterie'', both non-existed persons; his royal parentage was supported by later evidence.<ref>Louis XV secured for him a capital of 223, 000 livres who reported an annual revenue of 24,300 livres. In August 1774 Louis XVI signed for him a letter of Official Recognition of Nobility (identical to the others illegitimate children of Louis XV). In 1785 (when he took the Holy Orders) received a dispensation from the Pope because his illegitimate origin. After the Bourbon Restoration, Louis XVIII accorded to him a pension of 6,000 francs from the Civil List, who was aumented to 20,000 francs in May 1821. [[Charles X of France|Charles X]] (with whom he had an extraordinary physical resemblance) not omly maintained his pensions but also paid his exorbitant gambling debts. In 1830 he solicited to King Louis-Philippe I the secure of his pensions, which was granted.</ref> Abbot.
 
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