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See also:BOSC, 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 AUGUSTIN See also:GUILLAUME (1759-1828) , See also:French naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 29th of See also:January 1759. He was educated at the See also:college of See also:Dijon, where he showed a See also:taste for See also:botany, and he followed up his studies in Paris at the Jardin See also:des Plantes, where he made the acquaintance of Mme M. J. P.
See also:Roland. At the See also:age of eighteen he obtained a See also:government See also:appointment, and he See also:rose to be one of the See also:chief officials in the postal See also:department. Under the See also:ministry of J. M. Roland in 1792 he also held the See also:post of See also:superintendent of prisons, but the violent outbreaks of 1793 drove him from 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, and compelled him to take See also:refuge in See also:flight. For some months he See also:lay concealed at Sainte-Radegonde, in the See also:forest of See also:Montmorency, barely subsisting on roots and vegetables. He was enabled to return to Paris on the fall of See also:Robespierre, and under the See also:title Appel a l'impartiale posterite See also:par la citoyenne Roland published a See also:manuscript Mme Roland had entrusted to him before her See also:execution. Soon afterwards he set out for See also:America, resolving to explore the natural riches of that See also:country.
The immense materials he gathered were never published in a See also:complete See also:form, but much went to enrich the See also:works of B. G. E. de Lacepede, P. A. See also:Latreille and others. After his return, on the See also:establishment of the See also:Directory, he was reinstated in his old office. Of this he was again deprived by the coup d'etat of 1799, and for a 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 he was in See also:great destitution; but by his copious contributions to scientific literature he contrived to support himself and to lay the See also:foundations of a solid reputation. He was engaged on the new Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, and on the Encyclopedia methodique, he edited the Dictionnaire raisonne et universel d'See also:agriculture, and was one of the editors of the Annales de l'agriculture frangaise. He was made inspector of the gardens at See also:Versailles, and of the public nurseries belonging to the ministry of the interior. The last years of his See also:life were devoted to an elaborate See also:work on the See also:vine, for which he had amassed an immense quantity of materials, but his See also:death at Paris on the loth of See also:July 1828 prevented its completion.
End of Article: BOSC, LOUIS AUGUSTIN GUILLAUME (1759-1828)
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