See also:JEAN See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:LAYA (1761-1833)
, See also:French dramatist, ,was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 4th of See also:December 1761 and died in See also:August 1833
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He wrote his first See also:comedy in collaboration with See also:Gabriel M
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J
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B
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See also:Legouve in 1785, bu,t the piece, though accepted by the Comedie Francaise, was never represented
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In 1789 he produced a plea for religious See also:toleration in the See also:form of a five-See also:act tragedy in See also:verse, See also:Jean Galas; the injustice of the disgrace See also:cast on a See also:family by the See also:crime of one of its members formed the theme of See also:Les Dangers de l'See also:opinion (1790); but it is by his Ami See also:des lois (1793) that See also:Laya is remembered
.
This energetic protest against See also:mob-See also:rule, with its scarcely veiled characterizations of See also:Robespierre as Nomophage and of See also:Marat as Duricrane, was an act of the highest courage, for the See also:play was ,produced at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais (temporarily Theatre de la Nation) only
1 The verb " to See also:lie," to speak falsely, to tell a falsehood, is in O
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Eng
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Mogan; it appears in most See also:Teutonic See also:languages, e.g
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Dutch lugen, Ger. liigen
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nineteen days before the See also:execution of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVI
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Ten days after its first See also:production the piece was prohibited by the See also:commune, but the public demanded its See also:representation; the See also:mayor of Paris was compelled to See also:appeal to the See also:convention, and the piece was played while some 30,000 Parisians guarded the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall
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Laya went into hiding, and several persons convicted of having a copy of the See also:obnoxious play in their See also:possession were guillotined
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At the end of the Terror Laya returned to Paris
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In 1813 he re-placed See also:Delille in the Paris See also:chair of See also:literary See also:history and French See also:poetry; he was admitted to the See also:Academy in 18'7
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Laya produced in 1797 Les Deux Stuarts, and in 1799 See also:Falkland, the See also:title-role of which provided See also:Talma with one of his finest opportunities
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Laya's See also:works, which chiefly owe their See also:interest to the circumstances attending their production, were collected in 1836—1837
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See See also:Notice biographique sur J
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L
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Laya (1833) ; Ch
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See also:Nodier, Discours de reception, 26th December 1833) ; Welschinger, Thedtre de la revolution (188o)
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