Louisburg
a port on the S. E. coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 27 miles S. E. of Sydney. It is inhabited only by a few fishermen; but there are the ruins of the old town, which under the French had a large export trade in cod, and was the strongest fortress in North America till taken by the English in 1758. It had already been captured by the New England colonists and an English squadron in 1745, and restored in 1748; now its fortifications, which had been 30 years in building, and cost over $5,000,000, were demolished, and it gradually sank into ruin. LOUIS-D'OR (lö-ē-dor'), a gold coin introduced into France in 1641, and continued to be coined till 1795. The louisd'or ranged in value from about $4.14 to $4.69. In some parts of Germany, in the old coinage, were gold pieces of five thalers, often popularly called louis-d'or, and the name has been occasionally applied to the French napoleon or 20-franc piece.
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Lounsbury
THOMAS RAYNES- FORD, an American scholar; born in Ovid, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1838. He was graduated at Yale in 1859, and led the life of a student in Anglo-Saxon and early English, and a writer in critical and biographical works, till 1862, when he enlisted as a volunteer in the Union army, served as 1st lieutenant of the 126th New York Volunteers, and was mustered out at the close of the war; after 1871 occupied the chair of Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Among his published works are Chaucer's "House of Fame" and "Parlement of Foules"; "History of the English Language" (1879); biography of James Fenimore Cooper in "American Men of Letters" series (1883); his crowning work, which brought him great celebrity, "Studies in Chaucer, his Life and Writings" (3 vols. 1892); "Shakespeare and Voltaire" (1902); "The Standard of Pronunciation in English" (1904); The Standard of Usage in English" (1908); "Shakespeare as Dramatic Artist" (1912). He died in 1915.
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Lourdes
a town of France, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées, arrondissement of and 6 miles N. N. E. of Argeles, on the Gave-de-Pau, 10 miles W. by N. from Bagnères-de-Bigorre, on the Toulouse and Bayonne railroad; situated at the foot of an almost inaccessible rock, and commanded by a strong castle, now used as a prison; in the neighborhood are marble and slate quarries. In modern times a famous place of pilgrimage, a fact due to the belief that in 1858 the Virgin Mary appeared in a grotto in the neighborhood, above which a magnificent basilica has since been erected. Pop. commune, 8,805. LOURENCO MARQUEZ (lō-rān'sö märkes), one of the 6 districts of the province of Mozambique in Portuguese East Africa, and the name of the capital of the district and province. It is the seat of the governor-general of the province, is located on Delagoa Bay and is the terminus of the Delagoa Bay railway to Pretoria (347 miles) and of a new line, still under construction, to the border of Swaziland. Imports (1916) about $7,000,000; exports (1916) about $1,500,000. Pop. 13,154. See DELAGOA BAY; MOZAMBIQUE; PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA.
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Loutherburg
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Louys
PIERRE, born in 1870, was educated at the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He made a number of journeys to north Africa and founded at 19 the review "La Conque,” to which Swinburne, Verlaine, Leconte de Lisle, and Maeterlinck contributed. His novel "Aphrodite," from which ten plays and operas have been drawn in various languages, reached a sale of 320,000 copies. es. M. Louys's works are: "Astarte" (1892); "Les Chansons de Bilitis" (1895); "Aphrodite" (1896); "La Femme et le Pantin" (1898); "Les Aventures du Roi Pausole" (1901); "Sanguines" (1903); "Archipel" (1906); "Psyché" (1909). sion in 1730. On London, April 9, 1747. terian Church and in 1833. He then of the " Observer, became strongly always opposing ditional abolition. at Alton, in 1897.
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Lovat
SIMON FRAZER, a kirk, and was flung into prison on re- Scotch nobleman; second son of Thomas turning to England in 1648. In 1645 Frazer of Beaufort; born in 1667. In he published "Lucasta." In 1659 his 1699, on the death of his father, he asbrother collected his poems as "Lucasta: sumed the title of Lord Lovat, to which Posthume Poems." He died in London, on the death of the 11th Lord Lovat his England, in 1658. father had acquired a disputed claim.
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Lovejoy
ELIJAH PARISH, an railroad president, born in San Jacinto, American abolitionist; born in Albion, Tex., 1860. Admitted to the bar in 1882 and two years later became attorney for Me., Nov. 9, 1802. Soon after his graduthe Houston East & West Texas Ry. Co. ation at Waterville, in 1826, he went West, where, after teaching for some In 1904 he became general counsel for the Harriman railroad interests, and time, he became editor of a political journal. Subsequently he joined the Presby- Presbypresident in 1909. In March, 1918, he was licensed to preach became Director of the Division of Additook editorial charge tions and Betterments under the U. S. " a religious weekly Railroad Administration. published at St. Louis, Mo., and, first a believer in colonization, he gradually
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Lovelace
RICHARD, an English English icans at Home" (1908); "The American People" (1909-1911); "The Real Truth Cavalier poet; born in Woolwich, England, in 1618. He was the eldest son About Germany" (1914). of a Kentish knight of old family, and
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Lovelace, Richard
Richard (1618-1658), an English poet belonging to the Cavalier group of poets. His poems are chiefly lyrical. His best known lines were written in prison. See Suckling Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. -Lovelace.
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Lover
SAMUEL, an Irish novelist; To secure the estates he effected a forced born in Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 24, 1797. marriage with the Dowager Lady Lovat, Starting in life as a painter, his early for which he was outlawed and forced success secured his election, in 1828, as to take refuge in France. After a varied an academician of the Royal Hibernian life of intriguing, first on the Hanoverian Society of Arts. While still engaged as side and next on the Stuart, and a long painter, he turned his attention to literbong imprisonment, his title, which had been ature, and produced his celebrated objected to in various elections, was decided in his favor by the Court of Ses- "Legends and Tales Illustrative of Irish the outbreak of the Character. " Removing to London, in 1827, he published his popular novels, rebellion of 1745, Lovat acted with his "Rory O'More," "Handy Andy" (his best usual duplicity, sending his son to fight work), and "Treasure Trove." He also for the Pretender, while he himself rewrote several popular songs and comia mained at home, protesting his loyalty operas. In 1847 he visited the United to the Hanoverian house. This conduct States, returning to England the follow brought him to trial for treason, and ing year. He died in St. Heliers, July 6, resulted in his execution at Tower Hill. 1868.
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