Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People ...Appleton, 1864 |
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... Louis XIV . selected him for his confessor on the death of Father Ferrier in 1675. His position was one of great difficulty , owing to the different parties of the court , and the strife between Jansenists and Jesuits . In the most ...
... Louis XIV . selected him for his confessor on the death of Father Ferrier in 1675. His position was one of great difficulty , owing to the different parties of the court , and the strife between Jansenists and Jesuits . In the most ...
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... Louis XVIII . depo- sited a large sum in L.'s hands and after the battle of Waterloo , Napoleon intrusted 5,000,000 franes to him , which he kept safe , although the government made some attempts to lay hold of it . After the second ...
... Louis XVIII . depo- sited a large sum in L.'s hands and after the battle of Waterloo , Napoleon intrusted 5,000,000 franes to him , which he kept safe , although the government made some attempts to lay hold of it . After the second ...
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... LOUIS ETIENNE ARTHUR , VICOMTE DE , a conspicuous French politician of the Fiume , Grätz , & c . Its manufactures of cotton em- present day , was born in 1816 , of a noble family of ploy 400 hands , and upwards of 200 workmen are ...
... LOUIS ETIENNE ARTHUR , VICOMTE DE , a conspicuous French politician of the Fiume , Grätz , & c . Its manufactures of cotton em- present day , was born in 1816 , of a noble family of ploy 400 hands , and upwards of 200 workmen are ...
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... Louis Victor Amadeus of Carignan . She was very beautiful and amiable , and was married , in 1767 , to Louis Alexan- der Joseph Stanislaus de Bourbon , Prince of Lam- balle , who soon after died , a victim of debauchery . The princess ...
... Louis Victor Amadeus of Carignan . She was very beautiful and amiable , and was married , in 1767 , to Louis Alexan- der Joseph Stanislaus de Bourbon , Prince of Lam- balle , who soon after died , a victim of debauchery . The princess ...
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... LOUIS JUCHAULT DE , a French general , was born at Nantes , 5th February 1806 , studied at the Ecole Polytechnique , and after the revolution of 1830 , went to Algeria as a lieutenant of engineers . In 1833 , he became chief of the ...
... LOUIS JUCHAULT DE , a French general , was born at Nantes , 5th February 1806 , studied at the Ecole Polytechnique , and after the revolution of 1830 , went to Algeria as a lieutenant of engineers . In 1833 , he became chief of the ...
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