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See also:HACHETTE, 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 CHRISTOPHE See also:FRANCOIS .(1800-1864), See also:French publisher, was See also:born at See also:Rethel in the See also:Ardennes on the 5th of May "Soo. After studying three years at a normal school with the view of becoming a teacher, he was in 1822 on See also:political grounds expelled from the See also:seminary. He then studied See also:law, but in 1826 he established in See also:Paris a See also:publishing business for the issue of See also:works adapted to improve the See also:system of school instruction, or to promote the See also:general culture of the community. He published manuals in various departments of knowledge, dictionaries of See also:modern and See also:ancient See also:languages, educational See also:journals, and French, Latin and See also:Greek See also:classics annotated with See also:great care by the most eminent authorities. Subsequently to 1850 he, in See also:conjunction with other partners, published a cheap railway library, scientific and See also:miscellaneous See also:libraries, an illustrated library for the See also:young, libraries of ancient literature, of modern See also:foreign literature, and of modern foreign See also:romance, a See also:series of See also:guide-books and a series of dictionaries of universal reference. In 1855 he also founded Le See also:Journal pour tous, a publication with a circulation of r50,000 weekly. Hachette also manifested great See also:interest in the formation of mutual friendly See also:societies among the working classes, in the See also:establishment of benevolent institutions, and in other questions See also:relating 'to the amelioration of the poor, on which subjects he wrote various See also:pamphlets; and he See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent the See also:weight of his See also:influence towards a just See also:settlement of the question of See also:international See also:literary See also:copyright. He died on the 31st of See also:July 1864.
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