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See also:ANQUETIL, 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:PIERRE (1723-18o8) , See also:French. historian, was See also:born in See also:Paris, on the 21st of See also:February 1723. He entered the See also:congregation of Sainte-See also:Genevieve, where he took See also:holy orders and became See also:professor of See also:theology and literature. Later, he became director of the See also:seminary at See also:Reims, where he wrote his Histoire civile et politique de Reims (3 vols., 1756-1757), perhaps his best See also:work. He was then director of the See also:college of Senliia, where he composed his Esprit de la Ligue ou histoire politique See also:des troubles de la See also:Fronde See also:pendant le X We et le X Vile siecles (1767). During the Reign of Terror he was imprisoned at St Lazare; there he began his Precis de l'histoire universe/le, afterwards published in nine volumes. On the See also:establishment of the See also:national See also:institute he was elected a member of the second See also:group (moral and See also:political sciences), and was soon afterwards employed in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the See also:ministry of See also:foreign affairs, profiting by his experience to write his Motifs des guerres et des traites de paix sous Louis XI V •, Louis X V, et Louis X VI. He is said to have been asked by See also:Napoleon to write his Histoire de See also:France (14 vols., 1805), a mediocre compilation at second or third See also:hand, with the assistance of de See also:Mezeray and of See also:Paul See also:Francois Velly (1709-1759). This work, nevertheless, passed through numerous See also:editions, and by it his name is remembered. He died on the 6th of See also:September 18o8.
End of Article: ANQUETIL, LOUIS PIERRE (1723-18o8)
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