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See also:RICHELIEU, 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 See also:FRANCOIS ARMAND DU PLESSIS , Duc DE (1696-1788), See also:marshal of See also:France, was a grandnephew of See also:Cardinal Richelieu, and was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 13th of See also:March 1696. Apart from his reputation as a See also:man of exceptionally loose morals, he attained, in spite of a deplorably defective See also:education, distinction as a diplomatist and See also:general. As See also:ambassador to See also:Vienna (1725-29) he settled in 1727 the preliminaries of See also:peace; in 1733-34 he served in . the See also:Rhine See also:campaign. His real public career began ten years later. He fought with distinction at See also:Dettingen and See also:Fontenoy, where he directed the grapeshot upon the See also:English columns, and three years afterwards he made a brilliant See also:defence of See also:Genoa; in 1756 he expelled the English from See also:Minorca by the See also:capture of the See also:San Felipe fortress; and in 1757-58 he closed his military career by those pillaging See also:campaigns in See also:Hanover which procured him the See also:sobriquet of See also:Petit Pere de la Maraude. After the See also:wars he plunged again into See also:court intrigue, favouredthe comtesse du See also:Barry and supported his See also:nephew the duc d'See also:Aiguillon. Louis XVI., however, was not favourably inclined to hiln. In his See also:early-days he was thrice imprisoned in the See also:Bastille: in 1711 at the instance of his stepfather, in 1716 in consequence of a See also:duel, and in 1719 for his See also:share in See also:Alberoni's See also:conspiracy against the See also:regent See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans. He was thrice married: first, against his will, at the See also:age of fourteen to See also:Anne See also:Catherine de See also:Noailles; secondly, in 1734, by the intrigues (according to the witty Frenchman's own See also:account) of See also:Voltaire, to See also:Marie Elisabeth Sophie, Mademoiselle de See also:Guise; and thirdly, when he was eighty-four years old, to an Irish See also:lady. He died in Paris on the 8th of See also:August 1788. Marshal Richelieu's Memoires, published by J. L. Soulavie in nine volumes (1790), are partially See also:spurious.
See H. See also:Noel See also:Williams, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu (1910).
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