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:PETITOT (1652–c. 1730)
, See also:French See also:enamel painter, was the eldest son of See also:Jean See also:Petitot (q.v.), and was instructed in enamelling by his See also:father
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Some of his See also:works so closely resemble those of the See also:elder Petitot that it is difficult to distinguish between them, and he was really the only serious See also:rival his father ever had
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He settled for a while in See also:London, where he remained till 1682, and painted many enamel portraits of See also:Charles II
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In 1682 he removed to See also:Paris, but in 1695 was back again in London, where he remained until the 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 of his See also:death
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His portrait by See also:Mignard is in the museum at See also:Geneva, and another in enamel by himself in the collection of the See also:earl of Dartrey, who also owns two of his wife, Madeleine Bordier, whom he married in 1683
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Another portrait believed to represent him is in the collection of Mr Pierpont See also:Morgan
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PETITS-CHEVAUX (Fr. for " little horses" ), a gambling See also:game played with a See also:mechanical See also:device consisting of a See also:board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own See also:axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by See also:numbers or See also:colours
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The bystanders having staked their See also:money according to their choice on a board marked in divisions for this purpose, the horses are started revolving rapidly together by means of mechanism attached to the board, and the See also:horse which stops nearest a marked See also:goal wins, every player who has staked on that horse receiving so many times his stake
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Figures of railway trains and other See also:objects sometimes take the See also:place of horses
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In See also:recent years there has been a tendency to supplant the petits chevaux at French resorts by the See also:boule or See also:ball game, on the same principle of gambling; in this a ball is rolled on a See also:basin-shaped table so that it' may eventually See also:settle in one of a number of shallow cups, each marked with a figure
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