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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 XVI . (1754-1793), 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 of See also:France, was the son of Louis, dauphin of France, the son of Louis XV., and of See also:Marie See also:Joseph of See also:Saxony, and was See also:born at See also:Versailles on the 23rd of See also:August 1754, being baptized as Louis See also:Augustus. His See also:father's See also:death in 1765 made him See also:heir to the See also:throne, and in 1770 he was married to Marie Antoinette, daughter of the empress Maria See also:Theresa. He was just twenty years old when the death of Louis XV. on the loth of May 1774 placed him on the throne. He began his reign under See also:good auspices, with See also:Turgot, the greatest living See also:French statesman, in See also:charge of the disorganized finances; but in less than two years he had yielded to the demand of the vested interests attacked by Turgot's reforms, and dismissed him. Turgot's successor, See also:Necker, however, continued the regime of reform until 1781, and it was only with Necker's dismissal that the See also:period of reaction began. Marie Antoinette then obtained that ascendancy over her See also:husband which was partly responsible for
during which 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 she remained ignorant of the See also:fate which had befallen her parents. She died on the 19th of See also:October 1851. Her See also:life by G. Lenotre has been translated into See also:English by J. L. May (1908).
See the articles FRENCH REVOLUTION and MARIE ANTOINETTE. F. X. J. See also:Droz, Histoire du regne de Louis XVI. (3 vols., See also:Paris, 186o), a sane and good See also:history of the period; and Arsene See also:Houssaye, Louis XVI. (Paris, 1891). See also the numerous See also:memoirs of the time, and the See also:marquis de See also:Segur's Au couchant de la monarchie, Louis XVI. et Turgot (1910).
For See also:bibliographies see G. See also:Monod, Bibl. de la France; See also:Lavisse et See also:Rambaud, Hist. Univ., vols. vii. and viii. ; and the See also:Cambridge See also:Modern History, vol. viii. (R.
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