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LEKAIN , the See also:stage name of See also:Henri 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:Cain (1728-1778), See also:French actor, who was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 14th of See also:April 1728, the son of a silversmith. He was educated at the See also:College See also:Mazarin, and joined an See also:amateur See also:company of players against which the Comedic Francaise obtained an See also:injunction. See also:Voltaire supported him 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 and enabled him to See also:act in his private See also:theatre and also before the duchess of See also:Maine. Owing to the hostility of the actors it was only after a struggle of seventeen months that. by the command of Louis XV., he was received at the Comedic Francaise. His success was immediate. Among his best parts were See also:Herod in Mariamne, See also:Nero in See also:Britannicus and similar tragic roles, in spite of the fact that he was See also:short and stout, with irregular and rather See also:common features. His name is connected with a number of important scenic reforms. It was he who had the benches removed on which privileged spectators formerly sat encumbering the stage, See also:Count Lauragais paying for him an excessive See also:indemnity demanded. Lekain also protested against the method of sing-See also:song declamation prevalent, and endeavoured to correct the costuming of the plays, although unable to obtain the historic accuracy at which See also:Talma aimed. He died in Paris on the 8th of See also:February 1778.
If 's eldest son published his Memoirec (18o1) with his corresponden'e ucith Voltaire, See also:Garrick and others. They were reprinted with a See also:preface In "I'See also:ala,a in Memoires sur l'See also:art dramatique (1825).
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