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LAVAL , a See also:town of See also:north-western See also:France, See also:capital of the See also:department of See also:Mayenne, on the Mayenne See also:river, 188 m. W.S.W. of See also:Paris by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 24,874. On the right See also:bank of the river stands the old feudal See also:city, with its See also:ancient See also:castle and its irregularly built houses whose See also:slate See also:roofs and pointed gables peep from the groves of trees which clothe the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill. On the See also:left bank the regularly built new town extends far into the See also:plain. The river, here 8o yds. broad, is crossed by the handsome railway viaduct, a beautiful See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:bridge called See also:Pont Neuf, and the Pont Vieux with three pointed See also:arches, built in the 16th See also:century. There is. communication by steamer as far as See also:Angers. Laval may justly claim to be one of the loveliest of See also:French towns. Its most curious and interesting See also:monument is the sombre old castle of the See also:counts (now a See also:prison) with a See also:donjon of the 12th century, the roof of which presents a See also:fine example of the See also:timber-See also:work superseded afterwards by stone See also:machicolation. The " new castle," dating partly from the See also:Renaissance, serves as See also:court-See also:house. Laval possesses several churches of different periods: in that of the Trinity, which serves as the See also:cathedral, the See also:transept and See also:nave are of the 12th century while the See also:choir is of the 16th; St Venerand (15th century) has See also:good stained See also:glass; Notre-See also:Dame
neither coquetry nor self-See also:interest to their relation, which was sedulously concealed. See also:Nicolas See also:Fouquet's curiosity in the See also:matter was one of the causes of his disgrace. In See also:February 1662 there was a See also:storm when See also:Louise refused to tell her See also:lover the relations between Madame (Henrietta) and the See also:comte de Guiche. She fled to an obscure See also:convent at Chaillot, where 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 rapidly followed her. Her enemies, See also:chief of whom was Olympe See also:Mancini, comtesse de See also:Soissons, See also:Mazarin's niece, sought her downfall by bringing her liaison to the ears of See also:Queen Maria See also:Theresa. She was presently removed from the service of Madame, and established in a small See also:building in the Palais Royal, where in See also:December 1663 she gave See also:birth to a son See also:Charles, who was given in See also:charge to two faithful servants of See also:Colbert. Concealment was practically abandoned after her return to court, and within a See also:week of See also:Anne of See also:Austria's See also:death in See also:January 1666, La Valliere appeared at See also:mass See also:side by side with Maria Theresa. But her favour was already waning. She had given birth to a second See also:child in January 1665, but both See also:children were dead before the autumn of 1666. A daughter See also:born at See also:Vincennes in See also:October 1666, who received the name of See also:Marie Anne and was known as Mlle de See also:Blois, was publicly recognized by Louis as his daughter in letters-patent making the See also:mother a duchess in May 1667 and conferring on her the See also:estate of Vaujours. In October of that See also:year she See also:bore a son, but by this 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 her See also:place in Louis's affections was definitely usurped by Athenais de See also:Montespan (q.v.), who had See also:long been plotting against her. She was compelled to remain at court as the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:official See also:mistress, and even to See also:share Mme de Montespan's apartments at the Tuileries. She made an See also:attempt at 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 in 1671, when she fled to the convent of Ste Marie de Chaillot, only to be compelled to return. In 1674 she was finally permitted to enter the Carmelite convent in the See also:Rue d'Enfer. She took the final vows a year later, when See also:Bossuet pronounced the See also:allocution.
Her daughter married Armand de See also:Bourbon, See also:prince of See also:Conti, in 1680. The See also:count of See also:Vermandois, her youngest born, died on his first See also:campaign at Courtrai in 1683.
La Valliere's Rel,Jexions sur la misericorde de Dieu, written after her See also:retreat, were printed by Lequeux in 1767, and in 186o Re-flexions, lettres et sermons, by M. P. See also:Clement (2 vols.). Some apocryphal Memoires appeared in 1829, and the Lettres de Mme la duchesse de la Valliere (1767) are a corrupt version of her See also:correspondence with the marechal de Bellefonds. Of See also:modern See also:works on the subject see Arsene See also:Houssaye, Mlle de la Valliere et Mme de See also:Monte-span (186o); Jules Lair, Louise de in Valliere (3rd ed., 1902, Eng. trans., 1908) ; and C. See also:Bonnet, Documents inedits sur Mme de in Valliere (1904).
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