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LESUEUR, See also:DANIEL , the See also:pseudonym of JEANNE LAPANZE, nee Loiseau (186o- ),. See also:French poet and novelist, who was See also:born in See also:Paris in 186o. She published a See also:volume of poems, Fleurs d'avril (1882), which was crowned by the See also:Academy. She also wrote some powerful novels dealing with contemporary See also:life: Le Mariage de Gabrielle (1882); Un Mysterieux Amour (1892), with a See also:series of philosophical sonnets; L'Amant de See also:Genevieve (1883); Marcelle (1885); Une See also:Vie tragique (189o); See also:Justice de femme (1893); Comedienne Haine d'amour (1894); Honneur d'une femme (1901); La Force du passe (1905). Het poems were collected in 1895. She published in 1905 a See also:book on the economic status of See also:women, L'See also:Evolution feminine; and in 1891-1893 a See also:translation (2 vols.) of the See also:works of See also:Lord See also:Byron, which was awarded a See also:prize by the Academy. Her Masque d'amour, a five-See also:act See also:play based on her novel (1904) of the same name, was produced at the See also:Theatre Sarah See also:Bernhardt in 1905. She received the ribbon of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1900, and the prix v itet from the French Academy in 1905. She married in 1904 See also:Henry Lapanze (b. 1867), a well-known writer on See also:art. LE SUEUR, EUSTACHE (1617-1655), one of the founders of the French Academy of See also:painting, was born on the 19th of See also:November 1617 at Paris, where he passed his whole life, and where he died on the 3oth of See also:April 1655. His See also:early See also:death and I retired habits have combined to give an See also:air of See also:romance to his See also:simple See also:history, which has been decorated with as many fables as that of See also:Claude.

We are told that, persecuted by Le Brun, who was jealous of his ability, he became the intimate friend and correspondent of Poussin, and it is added that, broken-hearted at the death of his wife, Le Sueur retired to the monastery of the Chartreux and died in the arms of the See also:

prior. All this, however, is pure fiction. The facts of Le Sueur's life are these. He was the son of Cathelin Le Sueur, a See also:turner and sculptor in See also:wood, LE TELLIER, See also:MICHEL (16)3–1685), French statesman, was who placed his son with See also:Vouet, in whose studio he rapidly dis- born in Paris on the 19th of April 1603. Having entered the tinguished himself. Admitted at an early See also:age into the guild public service he became maitre See also:des requetes and in 164o of See also:master-painters, he See also:left them to take See also:part in establishing the See also:intendant of See also:Piedmont; in 1643, owing to his friendship with academy of painting and See also:sculpture, and was one of the first See also:Mazarin, he became secretary of See also:state for military affairs, being twelve professors of that See also:body. Some paintings, illustrative an efficient See also:administrator. In 1677 he was made See also:chancellor of of the Hypnerotomachia Polyphili, which were reproduced in See also:France and he was one of those who influenced See also:Louis XIV. to See also:tapestry, brought him into See also:notice, and his reputation was further revoke the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes. He died on the 3oth of See also:October enhanced by a series of decorations (Louvre) in the See also:mansion of 1685, a few days after the revocation had been signed. Le See also:Lambert de Thorigny, which he left uncompleted, for their Tellier, who amassed See also:great See also:wealth, left two sons, one the famous See also:execution was frequently interrupted by other commissions. statesman See also:Louvois and another who became See also:archbishop of See also:Reims. Amongst these were several pictures for the apartments of the His See also:correspondence is in the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris. See also:king and See also:queen in the Louvre, which are now missing, although See L.

Caron, Michel Le Tellier, intendant d'armee au Piemont they were entered in See also:

Bailly's See also:inventory (1710); but several (Paris, 1881). works produced for See also:minor patrons have come down to us. In Another MICHEL LE TELLIER (1643–1719) was See also:confessor of the See also:gallery of the Louvre are the " See also:Angel and Hagar," from the the French king Louis XIV. Born at See also:Vire on the 16th of mansion of De Tonnay See also:Charente; " Tobias and See also:Tobit," from the See also:December ,1643 he entered the Society of Jesus and later became Fieubet collection; several pictures executed for the See also:church prominent in consequence of his violent attacks on the Jansenists. of See also:Saint See also:Gervais; the " Martyrdom of St See also:Lawrence," from Saint He was appointed provincial of his See also:order in France, but it was Germain de l'Auxerrois; two very See also:fine works from the destroyed not until 1709 that he became the king 's confessor. In this See also:abbey of Marmoutiers; " St See also:Paul See also:preaching at See also:Ephesus," one capacity all his See also:influence was directed towards urging Louis to of Le Sueur's most See also:complete and thorough performances, painted further persecutions of the Protestants. He was exiled by the for the See also:goldsmith's See also:corporation in 1649; and his famous series of See also:regent See also:Orleans, but he had returned to France when he died at the " Life of St See also:Bruno," executed in the See also:cloister of the Chartreux. La See also:Fleche on the 2nd of See also:September 1719. These last have more See also:personal See also:character than anything else LETHAL (See also:Lat. lethalis, for letalis, deadly, from letum, death; which Le Sueur produced, and much of their See also:original beauty the spelling is due to a confusion with Gr. )o O , forgetfulness), survives in spite of injuries and restorations and removal from an See also:adjective meaning " deadly," " fatal," especially as applied to the See also:wall to See also:canvas. The Louvre also possesses many fine draw- weapons, drugs, &c. A " lethal chamber " is a See also:room or recepings (reproduced by Braun), of which Le Sueur left an incredible tacle in which animals may be put to death painlessly, by the quantity, chiefly executed in See also:black and See also:white See also:chalk His pupils, See also:admission of poisonous gases. who aided him much in his See also:work, were his wife's See also:brother, Th.

LETHARGY (Gr. Xt7Bapyia, from Xi7B,7, forgetfulness), drowsi-Gousse, and three See also:

brothers of his own, as well as Claude See also:Lefebvre ness, torpor. In See also:pathology the See also:term is used of a morbid See also:condition and See also:Patel the landscape painter. of deep and lasting See also:sleep from which the sufferer can be with Most of his works have been engraved, chiefly by Picart, B. difficulty and only temporarily aroused. The term See also:Negro or See also:Audran, Seb. Leclerc, Drevet, Chauveau, Poilly and Desplaces. See also:African lethargy was formerly applied to the disease now gener-Le Sueur's work See also:lent itself readily to the engraver's art, for he was a ally known as "sleeping sickness " (q.v.). charming draughtsman; he had a truly delicate See also:perception of LETHE (" Oblivion ") in See also:Greek See also:mythology, the daughter of varied shades of See also:grave and elevated sentiment, and possessed the See also:power to render them. His graceful facility in See also:composition was See also:Eris (See also:Hesiod, Theog. 227) and the personification of forgetfulness. always restrained by a very fine See also:taste, but his works often fail to It is also the name of a See also:river in the infernal regions. Those please completely, because, producing so much, he had too frequent initiated in the mysteries were taught to distinguish two streams recourse to conventional types, and partly because he rarely saw See also:colour except with the See also:cold and clayey quality proper to the school in the See also:lower See also:world, one of memory and one of oblivion. Three- of Vouet; yet his " St Paul at Ephesus ' and one or two other works tions for this purpose, written on a See also:gold See also:plate, have been found show that he was not naturally deficient in this sense, and whenever in a See also:tomb at Petilia, and near L.ebadeia, at the See also:oracle of Tro- we get See also:direct reference to nature—as in the monks of the St Bruno phonius, which was counted an entrance to the lower world, the series—we recognize his admirable power to read and render physiog- nomy of varied and serious type.' two springs Mnemosyne and Lethe were shown (See also:Pausanias ix.

See Guillet de St Georges, Mein. fined.; C. See also:

Blanc, Histoire des 39. 8). This thought begins to appear in literature in the end of peintres; See also:Vitet, See also:Catalogue des tableaux du Louvre; d'Argenville, the 5th See also:century B.C., when Aristophancs (Frogs, 186) speaks of Vies des peintres. the See also:plain of Lethe.

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