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JOHN LOUDOUN

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 28 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:LOUDOUN  'See also:CAMPBELL, 1ST See also:EARL OF (1598-1663), Scottish politician, eldest son of See also:Sir See also:James Campbell of Lawers, became See also:Baron See also:Loudoun in right of his wife See also:Margaret, See also:grand- Theophraste See also:Renaudot (d . 1653), founder of the See also:Gazette de See also:France, was See also:born at See also:Loudun, where there is a statue of him . The manufacture of See also:lace and upholstery trimming and of See also:farm implements is carried on, and there is a considerable See also:trade in agricultural products, See also:wine, &c . Loudun (See also:Laudanum in See also:ancient times) was a See also:town of importance during the religious See also:wars and gave its name in 1616 to a treaty favourable to the Protestants .

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