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Louis d'Outremer

(Encyclopedia) Louis d'Outremer: see Louis IV, French king. ...

Louis the Bavarian

(Encyclopedia) Louis the Bavarian: see Louis IV, Holy Roman emperor. ...

Louis the Great

(Encyclopedia) Louis the Great: see Louis I, king of Hungary. ...

Ames, Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759, English bibliographer. He compiled Typographical Antiquities (1749), a valuable list of English books printed before 1600. ...

Louis le Hutin

(Encyclopedia) Louis le Hutin: see Louis X, king of France. ...

Louis the Pious

(Encyclopedia) Louis the Pious: see Louis I, emperor of the West. ...

Joseph, in the Bible

(Encyclopedia) Joseph, one of the heroes of the patriarchal narratives of the Book of Genesis. He is presented as the favored son of Jacob and Rachel, sold as a boy into slavery by his brothers, who were jealous of ...

Hémon, Louis

(Encyclopedia) Hémon, Louis lwē āmôNˈ [key], 1880–1913, French Canadian novelist, b. France. After working as a journalist for French publications in England (1903–11), he moved to Quebec, where he worked a...

Hergesheimer, Joseph

(Encyclopedia) Hergesheimer, Joseph hûrˈgəshīˈmər [key], 1880–1954, American novelist, b. Philadelphia. He first achieved literary distinction with the publication of The Three Black Pennys (1917). This nove...
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