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See also:LESCURE, 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:MARIE See also:JOSEPH, See also:MARQUIS DE (1766—1793) , See also:French soldier and See also:anti-revolutionary, was See also:born near See also:Bressuire. He was educated at the Ecole Militaire, which he See also:left at the See also:age of sixteen. He was in command of a See also:company of-See also:cavalry in the See also:Regiment de Royal-Piemont, but being opposed to the ideas of the Revolution he emigrated in 1791; he soon, however, returned to See also:France, and on the loth of See also:August 1792 took See also:part in the See also:defence of the Tuileries against the See also:mob of See also:Paris. The See also:day after, he was forced to leave Paris, and took See also:refuge in the See also:chateau of See also:Clisson near Bressuire. On the outbreak of the revolt of See also:Vendee against the See also:Republic, he was arrested and imprisoned with all his See also:family, as one of the promoters of the rising. He was set at See also:liberty by the Royalists, and became one of their leaders, fighting at See also:Thouars, taking Fontenay and See also:Saumur (May—See also:June 1793), and, after an unsuccessful attack on See also:Nantes, joining H. du See also:Verger .de la Rochejaquelein, another famous Vendean See also:leader. Their See also:peasant troops, opposed to the republican See also:general F. J. Westermann, sustained various defeats, but finally gained a victory between Tiffauges and See also:Cholet on the 19th of See also:September 1793. The struggle was then concentrated See also:round See also:Chatillon, which was 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 after time taken and lost by the Republicans. Lescure was killed on the 15th of See also:October 1793 near the chateau of La 'Iremblaye between Einee and See also:Fougeres.
See Marquise de la Rochejaquelein (Lescure's widow, who after-wards married La Rochejaquelein), Memoires (Paris, 1817); See also:Jullien de Courcelles, Dictionnaire See also:des generaux See also:francais, tome vii. (1823); T. Muret, Histoire des guerres de Polies' (Paris, 1848); and J. A. M. Cretineau-Jolt' Guerres de Vendee (1834).
End of Article: LESCURE, LOUIS MARIE JOSEPH, MARQUIS DE (1766—1793)
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