I have a few questions, if any one could give me a good site I would appreciate it. Anyway, who would have been louis the 15th's heir if he had died in 1744, and was he any good as a general? Just wondering for a timeline I planning on. Thanks for the help.
Edit: I notice this is even before his first marriage, so who even knows what would happen if he suddenly became King in 1744.
I'm unsure of the Dauphin's martial skill-- apperently Louis XV wanted him to stay away from the front, and he went anyways, at Metz. This caused a great rift to develop between father and son, and there relationship was never the same. He had a great interest in the military arts, I could see him taking interest in military reforms and other such things -- many of the things that made France powerful during the Napoleonic Wars were already going down during the monarchy, such as their artillery for instance.
It would be interesting if both father and son die in 1744, and a succession conflict happens between the house of Orleans and the Spanish Bourbons in the middle of the War of the Austrian Succession.