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MARC See also:ANTOINE RENE DE VOYER , See also:marquis de Paulmy d'See also:Argenson (1722-1787), See also:nephew of the preceding and son of Rene 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, was See also:born at See also:Valenciennes on the 22nd of See also:November 1722. Appointed councillor at the See also:parlement (1744), and maitre See also:des requeetes (1747), he was associated with his See also:father in the See also:ministry of See also:foreign affairs and with his See also:uncle in the ministry of See also:war, and, in recognition of this experience, was commissioned to inspect the troops and fortifications and sent on See also:embassy to See also:Switzerland (1748). In 1751 his uncle recognized him as his See also:deputy and made over to him the reversion of the secretariate of war. He then worked on the See also:great reform of the See also:army, and after the dismissal of his uncle became See also:minister of war (See also:February 1757). But the outbreak of the Seven Years' War made this See also:post exceedingly difficult to hold, and he resigned on the 23rd of See also:March 1758. He was See also:ambassador to See also:Poland from 1762 to 1764, but failed to procure the nomination of the See also:French See also:candidate to that See also:throne. From 1766 to 1770 he was ambassador at See also:Venice. Failing to obtain the embassy at See also:Rome, he retired at the See also:age of See also:forty-eight and devoted the See also:rest of his See also:life to indulging his tastes for See also:history and See also:biography. He brought together a large library, very See also:rich in French See also:poetry and See also:romance, and undertook various publications with the help of his librarian. In 1775 he began his Bibliotheque universelle des See also:romans, of which forty volumes appeared within three years, but subsequently handed over the publication to other editors. His great See also:work, Melanges tires d'une grande bibliotheque, was published in 65 volumes (See also:Paris, 1779-1788). At his See also:death he forbade his library to be dispersed: it was bought by the See also:comte d'See also:Artois (afterwards See also:Charles X.) and formed the See also:nucleus of the See also:present Bibliotheque de l'See also:Arsenal at Paris (the marquis having been See also:governor of the arsenal). He died on the 13th of See also:August 1787.
See contemporary See also:memoirs; also See also:Dacier's eulogium in the Acadimie des See also:Inscriptions et Belles-Leitres (November 1788) ; and Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (vol. xii.).
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