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(Encyclopedia) Louis the Stammerer: see Louis II, French king. ...

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

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

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

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

(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...

(Encyclopedia) Louis the Younger, c.830–882, German king, ruler (876–82) over Saxony, Franconia, and Thuringia, son of Louis the German. He shared the succession to his father's lands with his brothers Carloman ...

(Encyclopedia) Jouvet, Louis lwē zho͞ovāˈ [key], 1887–1951, French actor, producer, and director. A member of Copeau's Théâtre du Vieux Colombier after 1913, he left in 1922 to organize his own theater. He w...

(Encyclopedia) Auchincloss, Louis (Louis Stanton Auchincloss) ôˈkĭnklŏs [key], 1917–2010, American novelist and man of letters, b. Lawrence, New York; studied Yale, Univ. of Virginia Law School (LL.B., 1941). ...

(Encyclopedia) Hébert, Louis ləwēˈ [key], 1575–1627, French pioneer, known as the first Canadian farmer. A Paris apothecary, he spent 10 years (1604–14) in Acadia, and at Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal, N.S...