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TOUSSAINT. See TOUSSAINT L'OVERTURE.
LOUVOIS (lö-vwä), FRANÇOIS MICHEL LE TELLIER, MARQUIS DE, the war-minister of Louis XIV.; born in Paris, France, Jan. 18, 1641. His father was Chancellor and Secretary of State in the war department; the son joined him as assistant-secretary in 1662, and became war-minister in 1668. In the drilling of the armies he had a ready agent in Martinet, whose name is not yet forgotten in military life. His labors bore their fruit in the great war that ended with the peace of Nimeguen (1678). During the following years Louvois took a leading part in the capture of Strassburg, in 1681. He died suddenly July 16, 1691.