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PONTECORVO , a See also:city of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Caserta, on the Garigliano, about 48 m. from Caserta and 3 M. from See also:Aquino on the railway from See also:Rome to See also:Naples. Pop. (19or) 1o,518 (See also:town); 12,492 (See also:commune). The town is approached by a triumphal See also:arch adorned with a statue of See also:Pius IX. The principality of Pontecorvo (about 40 sq. m. in extent), once an See also:independent See also:state, belonged alternately to the Tomacelli and the abbots of See also:Monte Cassino. See also:Napoleon bestowed it on Bernadotte in 18oE, and in 18 ro it was incorporated with the See also:French See also:Empire.
See also:PONT$COULANT, 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 GUSTAVE LE DOULCET, See also:COMTE DE (1764-1853), French politician, was See also:born at See also:Caen on the 17th of See also:November 1764. He began a career in the See also:army in 1778.
A moderate supporter of the revolution, he was returned to the See also:Convention for the See also:department of See also:Calvados in 1792, and became See also:commissary with the army of the See also:North. He voted for the imprisonment of Louis XVI. during the See also:war, and his banishment after the See also:peace. He then attached himself to the party of the See also:Gironde, and in See also:August .1793 was outlawed. He had refused to defend his compatriot See also:Charlotte See also:Corday, who wrote him a See also:letter of reproach on her way to the See also:scaffold. He returned to the Convention on the 8th of See also:March 1795, and showed an unusual spirit of moderation by defending See also:Prieur de la See also:Marne and See also:Robert See also:Lindet. See also:President of the Convention in See also:July 1795, he was for some months a member of the See also:council of public safety. He was subsequently elected to the council of five See also:hundred, but'was suspected of royalist leanings, and had to spend some 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 in retirement before the See also:establishment of the consulate.. Becoming senator in 18o5, and See also:count of the empire in 18o8, he organized the See also:national guard in Franche Comte in 1811, and the See also:defence of the north-eastern frontier in 1813. At the first restoration Louis XVIII. made him a peer of See also:France, and although he received a similar See also:honour from Napoleon during the Hundred Days, he sat in the upper See also:house under the Second Restoration. He died in See also:Paris on the 3rd of See also:April 1853, leaving See also:memoirs and See also:correspondence from which were extracted four volumes (r861-1865) of Souvenirs historiques et parlementaires 3764-1848.
His son Louis Adolphe Le Doulcet, comte de Pontecoulant (1794-1882), served under Napoleon in 1812 and 1814, and then emigrated to See also:Brazil, where he took See also:part in the abortive insurrection at See also:Pernambuco in 1817. He also organized a French volunteer contingent in the Belgian revolution of 1830, and was wounded at See also:Louvain. The See also:rest of his See also:life was spent, in Paris in the study of See also:ancient See also:music and See also:acoustics. Among his See also:works was one on the Musa instrumental du See also:conservatoire de musique (1864). A younger See also:brother, Philippe Gustave' Le .Doulcet, comte de Pontecoulant (1795-1874), served in the army until 1849, when he retired to devote himself to See also:mathematics and See also:astronomy. His works include Theorie .analytique du systeme du monde (Paris, 1829-1846) and Traite elementaire de physique See also:celeste (2 vols., Paris, 184o).
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