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Louis period styles

(Encyclopedia) Louis period styles, 1610–1793, succession of modes of interior decoration and architecture that established France as a leading influence in the decorative arts. The restraint of the later Louis ...

Agassiz, Louis

(Encyclopedia) Agassiz, Louis (Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz) ăgˈəsē [key], 1807–73, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist, b. Môtiers-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen ...

Louis Napoleon

(Encyclopedia) Louis Napoleon: see Napoleon III. ...

Henry, O.

(Encyclopedia) Henry, O.: see O. Henry.

Stokes, Louis

(Encyclopedia) Stokes, Louis: see under Stokes, Carl Burton. ...

Henry, John

(Encyclopedia) Henry, John: see John Henry.

Garnet, Henry

(Encyclopedia) Garnet, Henry: see Garnett, Henry. ...

Henry, Fort

(Encyclopedia) Henry, Fort, Tenn.: see Fort Henry. ...

Pasteur, Louis

(Encyclopedia) Pasteur, Louis păstŭrˈ, Fr. lwē pästörˈ [key], 1822–95, French chemist. He taught at Dijon, Strasbourg, and Lille, and in Paris at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne (1867–89)....

Blanc, Louis

(Encyclopedia) Blanc, Louis lwē bläN [key], 1811–82, French socialist politician and journalist and historian. In his noted Organisation du travail (1840, tr. Organization of Work, 1911), he outlined his ideal o...
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