However, it is alleged that Louis XV himself was the real father. The coevals attribute the count's paternity to the King of France Louis XV. According to documents of the Military Archive, the comte Jean François de Narbonne-Lara had been wounded 8 years earlier in the War of the Austrian Succession (1747), becoming from that moment on unable of having any offspring. The baptism of Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara is another indication of that paternity. His wife became thus the King's mistress. Not only was the comte's name also Louis, but his contemporaries always remarked about the similarities between Louis and the King.