| 1727 | Delatour settles in Paris. |
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| 1735 | Delatour’s first portrait of Voltaire. |
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| 1737 | Delatour is approved by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. |
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| 1739 | Louis XV calls Delatour to Versailles. |
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| 1741 | Portrait of President de Rieux |
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| 1745 | Maurice-Quentin Delatour lives in rooms in the Louvre. |
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| 1746 | Delatour is admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on the strength of his Portrait of Jean Restout. |
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| 1725 | Louis XV marries Marie Leszczynska, daughter of the former king of Poland, in Fontainebleau. |
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| 1745 | Mme de Pompadour becomes Louis XV’s official mistress. |
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| 1746 | La Font de Saint Yenne's account. |
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| 1747 | Marriage of Louis de France. |
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| 1749 | Following his Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient Diderot is imprisoned. |