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LEPCHA , the name of the aboriginal inhabitants of See also:Sikkim (q.v.). A See also:peace-loving See also:people, the Lepchas have been repeatedly conquered by surrounding 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-tribes, and their See also:ancient patriarchal customs are dying out. The See also:total number of speakers of Lepeha, or Rong, in all See also:India in 1901, was only 19,29r. Their See also:rich and beautiful See also:language has been preserved from extinction by the efforts of See also:General Mainwaring and others; but their literature was almost entirely destroyed by the Tibetans, and their traditions are being rapidly forgotten. Once See also:free and See also:independent, they are now the poorest people in Sikkim, and it is 'from them that the See also:coolie class is See also:drawn. They are above all things woodmen, knowing the ways of beasts and birds, and possessing an extensive zoological and botanical nomenclature of their own.
See See also:Florence See also:Donaldson, Lepcha See also:Land (1900).
LE PELETIER (or LEPELLETIER), DE See also:SAINT-FARGEAU, 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:MICHEL (176o-1793), See also:French politician, was See also:born on the 29th of May 176o at See also:Paris. He belonged to a well-known See also:family, his See also:great-grandfather, Michel See also:Robert Le Peletier See also:des Forts, See also:count of Saint-Fargeau, having been controller-general of See also:finance. He inherited a great See also:fortune, and soon became See also:president of the See also:parlement of Paris and in 1789 he was a See also:deputy of the noblesse to the States-General. At 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 he shared the conservative views of the See also:majority of his class; but by slow degrees his ideas changed and became very advanced. On the 13th of See also:July 1789 he demanded the recall of See also:Necker, whose dismissal by 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 had aroused great excitement in Paris; and in the Constituent See also:Assembly he had moved the abolition of the See also:penalty of See also:death, of the galleys and of See also:branding,, and the substitution of See also:beheading for See also:hanging. This attitude won him great popularity, and on the 21st of See also:June 1790 he was made president of the Constituent Assembly. During the existence of the Legislative Assembly, he was president of the general See also:council for the See also:department of the See also:Yonne, and was afterwards elected by this department as a deputy to the See also:Convention. Here he was in favour of the trial of Louis XVI. by the assembly and voted for the death of the king. This See also:vote, together with his ideas in general, won him the hatred of the royalists, and on the loth of See also:January 1793, the See also:eve of the See also:execution of the king, he was assassinated in the Palais Royal at Paris by a member of the king's See also:body-guard. The Convention honoured Le Peletier by a magnificent funeral, and the painter J. L. See also:David represented his death in a famous picture, which was later destroyed by his daughter. Towards the end of his See also:life, Le Peletier had interested himself in the question of public See also:education; he See also:left fragments of a See also:plan, the ideas contained in which were borrowed in later schemes. His See also:assassin fled to See also:Normandy, where, on the point of
being discovered, he blew out his brains. Le Peletier had
a See also:brother, See also:Felix (1769-1837), well known for his advanced
French nation.
See cEuvres de M. le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau (See also:Brussels, 1826) with a life by his brother Felix; E. Le Blant, " Le Peletier de St-Fargeau„ et eon meurtrier," in the Correspondant See also:review (1874); F. Clerembray, Episodes de la Revolution (See also:Rouen, 1891); Brette, " La Reforme de la legislation universelle, et le plan de Lepelletier Saint-Fargeau," in La Revolution francaise, xlii. (1902) ; and M. See also:Tourneux, See also:Bibliog. de l'hist. de Paris . . (vol. i., 189o, Nos. 3896-3910, and vol. iv., 1906, s.v. Lepeletier).
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