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:CHARLES See also:BARBON See also:MANCINI MAZARINI See also:NIVERNAIS
, Duc DE (1716-1798), See also:French diplomatist and writer, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 16th of See also:December 1716, son of Philippe Jules See also:Francois, duc de See also:Nevers, and Maria See also:Anne See also:Spinola, and See also:great-See also:nephew of See also:Cardinal See also:Mazarin
.
He was educated at the See also:College 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 le See also:Grand, and married at the See also:age of fourteen
.
He served in the See also:campaigns in See also:Italy (1733) and Bohemia (1740), but had to give up soldiering on See also:account of his weak See also:health
.
He was subsequently See also:ambassador at See also:Rome (1748-1752), See also:Berlin (1755-1756) and See also:London, where he negotiated the treaty of Paris (loth of See also:February 1763)
.
From 1787 to 1789 he was a member of the See also:Council of See also:State
.
He did not emigrate during the Revolution, but lost all his See also:money and was imprisoned in 1793
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He recovered his See also:liberty after the fall of See also:Robespierre, and died in
.
Paris on the 25th of February 1798
..
In 1743 he was elected to the, See also:Academy for a poem_entitled Delie, and from 1763 he devoted the greater See also:part of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to the See also:administration of the duchy of Nevers and to belles-lettres
.
He wrote much and with great facility; but his writings are of little value, his Fables being his best See also:pro-
ductions
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His Euvres completes were published in Paris in 1796; an edition of his 1 Euvres posthumes was brought out in Paris by Francois de See also:Neufchateau in 1807, and his Correspondance secrete was published in Paris by de See also:Lescure in 1866
.
See L
.
Perey (pseud. for Mlle
.
Luce Herpin), Un See also:Petit-Neveu de Mazarin (Paris, 189o) ; La Fin du X VIII' siecle: le duc de See also:Nivernais (Paris, 1891), by the-same writer; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (vol. xiii.) ; See also:Dupin, Eloge du duc de Nivernais (184o) ; See also:Abbe Blampignon, Le Duc de Nivernais, d'apres sa correspondance inedite (1888)
.
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