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See also:RACINE, 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 (1692-1763) , See also:French poet, second son of See also:Jean Racine, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 6th of See also:November 1692. See also:Early conscious of a vocation for See also:poetry, he had been dissuaded from following his inclination by Boileau on the ground that the See also:gift never existed in two successive generations. In 1722 his small means induced him to accept a position in the See also:revenue in See also:Provence, but a See also:marriage with a certain Mademoiselle Presle secured his See also:independence. In 1755 he lost his son in the disasters consequent on the See also:Lisbon See also:earthquake. This misfortune, commemorated by Ecouchard See also:Lebrun, See also:broke Racine's spirit. He sold his library, and gave himself up entirely to the practice of See also:religion. In 1719 he had become a member of the See also:Academic See also:des See also:Inscriptions, but had never offered himself as a member of the Academic Francaise, for fear, it is said, of incurring refusal on See also:account of his Jansenist opinions. La See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
Grace (1720) and Religion (1742), his most important See also:work, are inspired by a sincere piety, and are written in See also:verse of See also:uniform clearness and excellence. His other See also:works include epistles, odes, among whichthe See also:Ode See also:sus l'harmonie (1736) should be mentioned, Memoiros (1747) of Jean Racine, and a See also:prose See also:translation of See also:Paradise Lost (1755)• Louis Racine died on the 29th of See also:January 1763. He was characterized by See also:Voltaire as " le bon versificateur Racine, fils du See also:grand poete Racine."
His cEuvres completes were collected (6 vols.) in 1808.
End of Article: RACINE, LOUIS (1692-1763)
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