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SAARLOUIS , a See also:town and former fortress of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:Province, situated in a fertile See also:district on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Saar, and on the railway from See also:Saarbrucken to See also:Trier, 4c M. S. of the latter. Pop. (1905) 8313. The town is well laid out and has spacious streets and a handsome See also:market square. It contains a See also:Roman See also:Catholic and a• See also:Protestant See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, a town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, the walls of the See also:council chamber in which are hung with Gobelins, the See also:gift of 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 XIV., a classical school and a See also:hospital. There are See also:coal-mines in the vicinity, and the town has consider-able manufactures of See also:porcelain, See also:enamel wares and See also:leather, as well as a brisk See also:trade in See also:cattle and See also:grain.
Saarlouis was founded in 1681 by Louis XIV. of See also:France, and was fortified by See also:Vauban in 168o-1685. By the See also:peace of See also:Paris, in 1815, it was ceded to the See also:allies and by them was made over to See also:Prussia. The fortifications were dismantled in 1889. See also:Marshal See also:Ney was See also:born here.
See Niessen, Geschichte See also:des Kreises Saarlouis (Saarlouis, 1893 and 1897) ; and Baltzer, Historische Notizen fiber See also:die Stadt Saarlouis (Trier, 1865).
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