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See also:LAGRENEE, 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:JEAN See also:FRANCOIS (1724-1805) , See also:French painter, was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Carle See also:Vanloo. See also:Born at See also:Paris on the 3oth of See also:December 1724, in 1755 he became a member of the Royal See also:Academy, presenting as his diploma picture the " See also:Rape of Deianira " (Louvre). He visited St See also:Petersburg at the See also:call of the empress See also:Elizabeth, and on his return was named in 1781 director of the French Academy at See also:Rome; he there painted the " See also:Indian Widow," one of his best-known See also:works. In 1804 See also:Napoleon conferred on him the See also:cross of the See also:legion of See also:honour, and on the 19th of See also:June 1805 he died in the Louvre, of which he was honorary keeper.
LA GUAIRA, or LA GUAYRA (sometimes LAGUAIRA, &c.), a See also:town and See also:port of See also:Venezuela, in the Federal See also:district, 23 M. by See also:rail and 62 m. in a See also:direct See also:line N.'of See also:Caracas. Pop. (1904, estimate) 14,000. It is situated between a precipitous See also:mountain See also:side and a broad, semicircular indentation of the See also:coast line which forms the roadstead of the port. The anchorage was See also:long considered one of the most dangerous on the Caribbean coast, and landing was attended with much danger. The See also:harbour has been improved by the construction of a See also:concrete See also:breakwater See also:running out from the eastern See also:shore line 2044 ft., built up from an extreme See also:depth of 46 ft. or from an See also:average depth of 291 ft., and rising 191 ft. above See also:sea-level. This encloses an See also:area of 761 acres, having an average depth of nearly 28 ft. The harbour is further improved by 187o ft. of concrete quays and 1397 ft. of retaining sea-See also:wall, with several piers (three covered) projecting into deep See also:water. These works were executed by a See also:British See also:company, known as the La Guaira Harbour See also:Corporation, Ltd., and were completed in 1891 at a cost of about one million See also:sterling. The concession is for 99 years and the additional charges which the company is authorized to impose are necessarily heavy. These improvements and the restrictions placed upon the direct See also:trade between See also:West Indian ports and the See also:Orinoco have greatly increased the See also:foreign trade of La Guaira, which in 1903 was 52% of that of the four puertos habilitados of the See also:republic. The See also:shipping
1867-1877). The first, second and third sections of this publication comprise respectively the papers communicated by him to the See also:Academies of Sciences of See also:Turin, See also:Berlin and Paris; the See also:fourth includes his See also:miscellaneous contributions to other scientific collections, together with his additions to See also:Euler's See also:Algebra, and his Lecons elementaires at the Ecole Normale in 1795. See also:Delambre's See also:notice of his See also:life, extracted from the Mem. de l'Institut, 1812, is prefixed to the first See also:volume. Besides the See also:separate works already named are See also:Resolution See also:des equations numeriques (1798, 2nd ed., 18o8, 3rd ed., 1826), and Lecons sur le calcul des fonctions (1805, 2nd ed., 1806), designed as a commentary and supplement to the first See also:part of the Theorie des fonctions. The first volume of the enlarged edition of the Mecanique appeared in 1811, the second, of which the revision was completed by MM See also:Prony and Binet, in 1815. A third edition, in 2 vols., 4to, was issued in 1853-1855, and a second of the Theorie des fonctions in 1813.
See also J. J. Virey and Potel, Precis historique (1813); Th. See also:Thomson's See also:Annals of See also:Philosophy (1813-1820), vols. ii. and iv.; H. Suter, Geschichte der math. Wiss. (1873); E. See also:Duhring, Kritische Gesch. der allgemeinen Principien der Mechanik (1877, 2nd ed.) ; A. See also:Gautier, Essai historique sur le probleme des trois See also:corps (18j7); R. See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, See also:History of See also:Physical See also:Astronomy, &c.; Pietro Cossali, Eloge (See also:Padua, 1813) ; L. See also:Martini, Cenni biogrdfici (184o) ; Moniteur du 26 Fevrier (1814); W. See also:Whewell, Hist. of the Inductive Sciences, ii. passim; J. Clerk See also:Maxwell, See also:Electricity and See also:Magnetism, ii. 184; A. See also:Berry, See also:Short Hist. of See also:Asir., p. 313; J. S. See also:Bailly, Hist. de l'astr. moderne, iii. 156, 185, 232; J. C. See also:Poggendorff, Biog. Lit. Handworterbuch. (A. M. C.)
See also:LAGRANGE-See also:CHANCEL [CHANCEL, FRANCOIS See also:JOSEPH (1677-1758), French dramatist and satirist, was born at Perigueux on the 1st of See also:January 1677. He was an extremely precocious boy, and at See also:Bordeaux, where he was educated, he produced a See also:play when he was nine years old.
Five years later his See also:mother took him to Paris, where he found a See also:patron in the princesse de See also:Conti, to whom he dedicated his tragedy of Jugurtha or, as it was called later, Adherbal (1694). See also:Racine had given him See also:advice and was See also:present at the first performance, although he had long lived in See also:complete retirement. Other plays followed: Oreste et Pylade (1697), Meleagre (1699), See also:Amasis (1701), and Ino et Melicerte (1715). Lagrange hardly realized the high hopes raised by his precocity, although his only serious See also:rival on the tragic See also:stage was See also:Campistron, but he obtained high favour at See also:court, becoming maitre d'hotel to the duchess of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans. This prosperity ended with the publication in 1720 of his Philippiques, odes accusing the See also:regent, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, See also:duke of Orleans, of the most odious crimes. He might have escaped the consequences of this See also:libel but for the See also:bitter enmity of a former patron, the duc de La Force. Lagrange found See also:sanctuary at See also:Avignon, but was enticed beyond the boundary of the papal See also:jurisdiction, when he was arrested and sent as a prisoner to the isles of Sainte See also:Marguerite. He contrived, however, to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape to See also:Sardinia and thence to See also:Spain and See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, where he produced his fourth and fifth Philippiques. On the See also:death of the Regent he was able to return to See also:France. He was part author of a Histoire de See also:Perigord See also:left unfinished, and made a further contribution to history, or perhaps, more exactly, to See also:romance, in a See also:letter to See also:Elie See also:Freron on the identity of the See also:Man with the See also:Iron See also:Mask. Lagrange's See also:family life was embittered by a long lawsuit against his son. He died at Perigueux at the end of December 1758.
He had collected his own works (5 vols., 1758) some months before his death. His most famous See also:work, the Philippiques, was edited by M. de See also:Lescure in 1858, and a See also:sixth philippic by M. Diancourt in 1886.
LA GRANJA, or See also:SAN ILDEFONSO, a summer See also:palace of the See also:kings of Spain; on the See also:south-eastern border of the See also:province of See also:Segovia, and on the western slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 7 M. by road S.E. of the See also:city of Segovia. The royal See also:estate is 3905 ft. above sea-level. The scenery of this region, especially in the See also:gorge of the See also:river Lozoya, with its See also:granite rocks, its dense See also:forest of pines, firs and birches, and its red-tiled farms, more nearly resembles the See also:highlands of See also:northern See also:Europe than any other part of Spain. La Granja has an almost alpine See also:climate, with a clear, cool See also:atmosphere and abundant See also:sunshine. Above the palace rise the wooded summits of the Guadarrama, culminating in the See also:peak of Pefialara (7891 ft.); in front of it the wide plains of Segovia extend northwards. The See also:village of San Ildefonso, the See also:oldest part of the estate, was founded in 1450 by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV., who built a See also:hunting See also:lodge and See also:chapel here. In
entries of that See also:year numbered 217, of which 203 entered with See also:general See also:cargo and 14 with See also:coal exclusively. The exports included 152,625 bags See also:coffee, 114,947 bags cacao and 152,891 hides. For 1905—1906 the imports at La Guaira were valued officially at £767,365 and the exports at £663,708. The city stands on sloping ground stretching along the circular coast line with a varying width of 130 to 330 ft. and having the See also:appearance of an See also:amphitheatre. The port improvements added 18 acres of reclaimed See also:land to La Guaira's area, and the removal of old shore batteries likewise increased its available breadth. In this narrow space is built the town, composed in See also:great part of small, roughly-made cabins, and narrow, badly-paved streets, but with See also:good business houses on its See also:principal See also:street. From the mountain side, reddish-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown in See also:colour and See also:bare of vegetation, the See also:solar See also:heat is reflected with tremendous force, the mean See also:annual temperature being 84° F. The seaside towns of Maiquetia, 2 M. W. and Macuto, 3 M. E., which have better See also:climatic and sanitary conditions and are connected by a narrow-See also:gauge railway, are the residences of many of the wealthier merchants of La Guaira.
La Guaira was founded in 1588, was sacked by filibusters under Amias See also:Preston in 1595, and by the French under See also:Grammont in 1680, was destroyed by the great See also:earthquake of the 26th of See also:March 1812, and suffered severely in the See also:war for See also:independence. In 1903, pending the See also:settlement of claims of Great See also:Britain, See also:Germany and See also:Italy against Venezuela, La Guaira was blockaded by a British-See also:German-See also:Italian See also:fleet.
LA GUERONNIERE, LOUIS See also:ETIENNE See also:ARTHUR DUBREUIL HELION, VICOMTE DE (1816—1875), French politician, was the See also:scion of a See also:noble Poitevin family. Although by See also:birth and See also:education attached to Legitimist principles, he became closely associated with Lamartine, to whose See also:organ, Le Bien Public, he was a principal contributor. After the stoppage of this See also:paper he wrote for La Presse, and in 185o edited Le Pays. A See also:character See also:sketch of Louis Napoleon in this See also:journal caused See also:differences with Lamartine, and La Gueronniere became more and more closely identified with the policy of the See also:prince See also:president. Under the See also:Empire he was a member of the See also:council of See also:state (1853), senator (1861), See also:ambassador at See also:Brussels (1868), and at See also:Constantinople (1870), and See also:grand officer of the legion of honour (1866). He died in Paris on the 23rd of December 1875. Besides his Etudes el portraits politiques contemporains (1856) his most important works are those on the foreign policy of the Empire: La France, Rome et See also:Italic (1851), L' Abandon de Rome (1862), De la politique interieure et exterieure de la France (1862).
His See also:elder See also:brother, See also:ALFRED DUBREUIL HELION, See also:Comte de La Gueronniere (1810-1884), who remained faithful to the Legitimist party, was also a well-known writer and journalist. He was consistent in his opposition to the See also:July See also:Monarchy and the Empire, but in a See also:series of books on the crisis of 1870—1871 showed a more favourable attitude to the Republic.
End of Article: LAGRENEE, LOUIS JEAN FRANCOIS (1724-1805)
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