(Encyclopedia) Leakey, Louis Seymour BazettLeakey, Louis Seymour Bazettbăzˈət, lēˈkē [key], 1903–72, British archaeologist and anthropologist of E Africa, b. Kabete, Kenya; father of Richard Leakey.…
(Encyclopedia) Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses deFreycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses delwē klōd dəsōlsˈ [key]Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de də frāsēnāˈ [key], 1779–1842, French marine officer.…
(Encyclopedia) Louis XII, 1462–1515, king of France (1498–1515), son of Charles, duc d'Orléans. He succeeded his father as duke. While still duke, he rebelled against the regency of Anne de Beaujeu…
(Encyclopedia) Louis XVII (Louis Charles), 1785–1795?, titular king of France (1793–95), known in popular legend as the “lost dauphin.” The second son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, he…
(Encyclopedia) Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850–94, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, b. Edinburgh. Handicapped from youth by delicate health, he struggled all his life against tuberculosis. He…
(Encyclopedia) Brandeis, Louis DembitzBrandeis, Louis Dembitzbrănˈdīs [key], 1856–1941, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916–39), b. Louisville, Ky., grad. Harvard law school, 1877. As a…
(Encyclopedia) Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet deBourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet delwē äNtwänˈ fōvəlāˈ də b&oomacr;rēĕnˈ [key], 1769–1834, French political figure. He was a friend and for a…
(Encyclopedia) Daguerre, Louis Jacques MandéDaguerre, Louis Jacques Mandélwē zhäk mäNdāˈ dägârˈ [key], 1789–1851, French scene painter and physicist, inventor of the daguerreotype, a photograph…
(Encyclopedia) Louis II, d. 875, emperor of the West (855–75), king of Italy (844–75), son of Emperor of the West Lothair I. In 844, Lothair I designated him king of Italy and in 850 he was crowned…
(Encyclopedia) Jackson, Jesse Louis, 1941–, African-American political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist, b. Greenville, S.C. Raised in poverty, he attended the Chicago Theological…
