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See also:LEMERCIER, 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 NEPOMUCENE (1771–1840) , See also:French poet and dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 21St of See also:April 1771. His See also:father had been See also:intendant successively to the duc de Penthievre, the See also:comte de See also:Toulouse and the unfortunate princesse de See also:Lamballe, who was the boy's godmother. Lemercier showed See also:great precocity; before he was sixteen his tragedy of Meleagre was produced at the Tlzedtre See also:Francois. Clarissa Harlowe (1792) provoked the See also:criticism that the author was not asset roue pour peindre See also:les roueries. Le Tartufe revolutionnaire, a See also:parody full of the most audacious See also:political allusions, was suppressed after the fifth See also:representation. In 1795 appeared Lemercier's masterpiece See also:Agamemnon, called by See also:Charles Labitte the last great See also:antique tragedy in French literature. It was a great success, but was violently attacked later by See also:Geoffroy, who stigmatized it as a See also:bad See also:caricature of See also:Crebillon.
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