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Louis the Stammerer

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

Franz, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Franz, Robert rōˈbĕrt fränts [key], 1815–92, German composer of about 350 lieder, intimate songs, usually in strophic form. The first of them (pub. 1843) drew warm praise from Schumann. Franz ch...

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. ...

Barany, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Barany, Robert rōˈbĕrt bäˈränē [key], 1876–1936, Austrian physician. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Ph...

Motherwell, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Motherwell, Robert, 1915–91, American painter and writer, b. Aberdeen, Wash. Motherwell taught art at several colleges and during the early 1940s he became a cogent theoretician of abstract expressi...

Malle, Louis

(Encyclopedia)Malle, Louis lwē mäl [key], 1932–95, French film director, b. Thumeries, France. Malle's motion pictures are noted for their nonjudgmental approach to often taboo material, for which he sought to ...

Louis the Younger

(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 ...