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(Encyclopedia) Louis, Séraphine sāräfēnˈ lwē [key], 1894–1934, French neoprimitive painter. Louis was a shepherdess and kitchen helper who taught herself to paint. Her powerful floral paintings are fantasies...

(Encyclopedia) Christian IV, 1577–1648, king of Denmark and Norway (1588–1648), son and successor of Frederick II. After assuming (1596) personal rule from a regency, he concentrated on building the navy, indust...

(Encyclopedia) Port Louis, city (1996 est. pop. 135,371), capital of Mauritius, NW Mauritius, a port on the Indian Ocean. It is the nation's largest city and its economic and administrative center. Its economy is do...

(Encyclopedia) Christian iconography: see under iconography. ...

(Encyclopedia) Günther, Johann Christian günˈtər [key], 1695–1723, German lyric poet. The young Goethe was inspired by the naturalness and vigor of Günther's verse. Among his remembered poems is the drinking...

(Encyclopedia) Metz, Christian: see Amana Church Society. ...

(Encyclopedia) Bergh, Christian: see under Bergh, Henry. ...

(Encyclopedia) Christian of Brunswick or Christian of Halberstadt, 1599–1626, Protestant military leader in the Thirty Years War, titular bishop of Halberstadt (1616–23). One of the first allies of Frederick the...

(Encyclopedia) Wolf, Christian von: see Wolff, Christian von. ...

(Encyclopedia) Christian Brothers: see John Baptist de la Salle, Saint. ...