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Louis-François De Gannes, Sieur De Falaise
Louis-François or Louis François may refer to: * Louis François, Prince of Conti (1717–1776), French nobleman * Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti (1734–1814), son of Louis François I * Louis-François de Bausset (1748–1824), French cardinal and writer * Louis-François Bertin (1766–1841), French journalist * Louis-François de Boufflers (1644–1711), Marshal of France * Louis François Cauchy (1760–1848), French official, father of mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy * Louis-François Dunière (1754–1828), businessman in Lower Canada * Louis-François Richer Laflèche (1818–1898), Roman Catholic Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Native American missionary * Louis-François Lejeune (1775–1848), French general, painter, and lithographer * Louis François de Pourtalès (1824–1880), American naturalist * Louis-François Roubiliac (1702–1762), French sculptor * Louis-François Bertin de Vaux Louis-François Bertin de Vaux (18 August 177123 April 1842) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis François, Prince Of Conti
Louis François de Bourbon, or Louis François I, Prince of Conti (13 August 1717 – 2 August 1776), was a French nobleman who became the Prince of Conti from 1727 to his death, succeeding his father, Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, Louis Armand II de Bourbon. His mother was Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon, the daughter of Louis, Prince of Condé (1668–1710), Louis III, Prince of Condé and Louise Françoise de Bourbon, a legitimized daughter of King Louis XIV of France. His younger sister, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, was the mother of ''Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Philippe Égalité''. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, he was a Prince du Sang. Biography Louis François I de Bourbon was born in Paris. In 1731, he married Louise Diane d'Orléans, Louise Diane d'Orléans, ''Mademoiselle de Chartres'' (the first-cousin of his mother Louise Élisabeth, through her mother), who was the youngest daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (the regent, Régent of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis François Joseph, Prince Of Conti
Louis François Joseph de Bourbon or Louis François II, Prince of Conti (1 September 1734 – 13 March 1814), was the last Prince of Conti, scion of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, whose senior branches ruled France until 1848. His title was honorary and did not carry any territorial jurisdiction. Biography Born at the Hôtel de Conti (quai Conti) in Paris, on 1 September 1734, and baptised in the presence of the French king and queen, he succeeded his father, Louis François I de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, as head of the most junior branch of the House of Bourbon in 1776. His mother was Louise Diane d'Orléans, youngest daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France during the minority of King Louis XV of France. From birth, he was known as the ''comte de La Marche''. His mother died on 26 September 1736, giving birth to a later child who did not survive. After her death, his father retired from the Royal court to the ''Château de L'Isle-Adam'', pursuing h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François De Bausset
Louis-François de Bausset (14 December 1748 – 21 June 1824) was a French cardinal, writer and member of the Académie française. He was Vicar-General of the Diocese of Aix and Digne before being nominated a bishop. He was nominated Bishop of Alais (or Alès) by King Louis XVI on 23 February 1784, and received approval from Pope Pius VI on 25 June 1784. He resigned the diocese in 1801, at the request of Pope Pius VII, who had entered into the Concordat of 1801 with First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte.Ritzler, p. 74, and note 5. The Concordat called for the reorganization of the episcopate in France, and the Pope had asked all bishops, pre- and post- Revolutionary, to resign in order to allow him a free hand. He was born in Pondicherry, and died in Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François Bertin
Louis-François Bertin, also known as Bertin l'Aîné (''Bertin the Elder''; 14 December 176613 September 1841), was a French journalist. He had a younger brother, Louis-François Bertin de Vaux; two sons, Edouard François and Louis-Marie François; and a daughter, Louise Bertin. Life Early career Born in Paris (his father was a former secretary of Étienne François, duc de Choiseul), and considered in retrospect the most important member of the Bertin family, he began his journalistic career by writing for the ''Journal Français'' and other papers during the French Revolution. After Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire Coup he acquired the paper with his family name has chiefly been connected, the ''Journal des débats''. Guided by the contributions of figures such as Joseph Fiévée, Julien Louis Geoffroy, Jean François Joseph Dussault, François-René de Chateaubriand, Charles-Marie-Dorimond de Féletz, Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie, Conrad Malte-Brun, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François De Boufflers
Louis François de Boufflers, Duke of Boufflers (10 January 1644 – 22 August 1711) was a French soldier. He was created count of Cagny (modern Crillon) and duke of Boufflers and named marshal of France. Biography Louis-François was born at Crillon in Oise on 10 January 1644. He entered the army and saw service in 1663 at the siege of Marsal, becoming colonel of dragoons in 1669. In the conquest of Lorraine (1670), he served under the '' Marshal de Créqui''. In the Dutch Republic, he served under Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, frequently distinguishing himself by his skill and bravery; and when Turenne was killed by a cannon shot in 1675, he commanded the rear-guard during the retreat of the French army. He was already a brigadier, and in 1677 he became ''maréchal de camp''. He served throughout the campaigns of the time with increasing distinction, and in 1681 became lieutenant-general. He commanded the French army on the Moselle, which opened the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis François Cauchy
Louis François Cauchy (27 May 1760 – 28 December 1848) was a senior French government official and the father of the mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy. Born on 27 May 1760 in Rouen into an upper-middle-class family, Cauchy successfully studied at the Collège de Lisieux in Paris. In 1771 he received the top prize in the concours général. He became a lawyer at the Parlement of Normandy, and in 1783 he joined the office of the Intendant Général of Rouen, Louis Thiroux de Crosne. When de Crosne took charge of the Paris police, Cauchy followed him as his senior aide. In October 1787 he married Marie-Madeleine Desestre, who came from a family of Parisian officers, and the couple had four children, Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857), Alexandre Laurent Cauchy (1792–1857), Eugène François Cauchy (1802–1877) and a daughter. On the year of Augustin-Louis Cauchy's birth, Louis François moved his entire family to the small village of Arcueil. In April 1794, de Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François Dunière
Louis-François Dunière (July 11, 1754 – August 29, 1828) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in the town of Quebec in 1754, the son of Louis Dunière. Dunière was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Hertford in 1796, after his father retired from politics. As his father had in the 1792 assembly, Louis-François proposed Jean-Antoine Panet as speaker. Dunière settled at Berthier. He was a justice of the peace and served as major in the local militia during the War of 1812. He died in Pointe-du-Lac Pointe-du-Lac is one of the six boroughs of the city of Trois-Rivières and a former municipality in Quebec, Canada on the St. Lawrence River. It was founded in 1738 and its current church dates from 1882. Another old building in the village is the ... in 1828. External links * 1754 births 1828 deaths Pre-Confederation Quebec people Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada Canadian justices of the peac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François Richer Laflèche
Louis-François Laflèche, (September 4, 1818 – July 14, 1898), was a Catholic bishop of the diocese of Trois-Rivières, in the province of Quebec, Canada. Early life and career He was born on September 4, 1818, in the village of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade to Louis-Modeste Richer dit Laflèche and Marie-Anne Richer dit Laflèche (née Joubin dit Boisvert). His family held the secondary surname of Laflèche because their ancestor, Jean Richer, was from an area in France called La Flèche, near Anjou. Laflèche studied at the Nicolet Seminary College in Nicolet, Quebec from 1831 to 1839. Following his education, he taught classics and science while continuing courses in theology. He was ordained a priest on January 7, 1844. In 1844, he headed a mission near the Red River of the North. As a missionary Oblate Laflèche educated himself in three Native American languages spoken in the North-Western Territory: Cree, Chipewyan, and Anishinaabe. He was the first to reduce the Chip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François Lejeune
Louis-François, Baron Lejeune (3 February 1775 in Strasbourg – 29 February 1848) was a French general, painter, and lithographer. His memoirs have frequently been republished and his name is engraved on the Arc de Triomphe. Life He studied painting in the studio of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, alongside Jean-Victor Bertin, but left the studio to volunteer in the Compagnie des arts de Paris in 1792. He received his baptism of fire in the battle of Valmy later that year. He became a sergeant in the 1st Arsenal battalion and in 1793 moved to the artillery at La Fère, assisting in the sieges of Landrecies, Le Quesnoy and Valenciennes. At Valenciennes he became aide-de-camp to General Jacob then, as a lieutenant on attachment to the engineers, took part in the 1794 Holland campaign and the 1795 campaign. Called to the depot in 1798, he succeeded brilliantly in his exams and was made a captain on attachment to the engineers. He became aide-de-camp to Marshal Berthier in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis François De Pourtalès
Louis François de Pourtalès (4 March 1824 – 18 July 1880) was a France, Franco-United States, American naturalist, born at Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Early life and education Pourtales was born on 4 March 1824 and regarded as a Switzerland, Swiss representative of an old family with linage in France, Prussia, and Bohemia. After the death of his father, he succeeded to the title of Count and inherited a fortune that enabled his scientific pursuits. He was educated as an engineer. He was regarded as an expert in mathematics, physics and zoology, and had interest in literature, poetry and history. Death Pourtales died on 18 July 1880 from an unspecified "obscure internal disease". Career Pourtales was a pupil of Louis Agassiz, whom he accompanied in 1840 on Glacier, glacial expeditions in the Alps and, in 1847, followed Agassiz to immigrate into the United States. In 1848, he entered government service with the U.S. National Geodetic Survey, Coast Survey and became profoundly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François Roubiliac
Louis-François Roubiliac (or Roubilliac, or Roubillac) (31 August 1702 – 11 January 1762) was a French sculptor who worked in England. One of the four most prominent sculptors in London working in the rococo style, he was described by Margaret Whinney as "probably the most accomplished sculptor ever to work in England". Life Roubiliac was born in Lyon. According to J. T. Smith he was trained in the studio of Balthasar Permoser in Dresden, where Permoser, a product of Bernini's workshop, was working for the Protestant Elector of Saxony, and later in Paris, in the studio of his fellow-townsman Nicolas Coustou. Disappointed in receiving second place in the competition for the Prix de Rome, 1730, he received his medal but not the chance to study in Rome; he moved to London instead. In 1735 he married Caroline Magdalene Hélot, a member of the French Huguenot community in London, at St Martin-in-the-Fields. In London, he was employed by "Carter, the statuary" but was introduced b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-François Bertin De Vaux
Louis-François Bertin de Vaux (18 August 177123 April 1842) was a French journalist. Louis was the younger brother of Louis-François Bertin Louis-François Bertin, also known as Bertin l'Aîné (''Bertin the Elder''; 14 December 176613 September 1841), was a French journalist. He had a younger brother, Louis-François Bertin de Vaux; two sons, Edouard François and Louis-Marie F .... He took a leading part in the conduct of his brother's paper ''Journal des Débats'', to the success of which his powers of writing greatly contributed. He entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1815, was made Councillor of State in 1827, and a peer of France in 1830. References 1771 births 1842 deaths Writers from Paris Politicians from Paris Orléanists Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration Members of the 1st Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy Members of the 2nd Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
