Lot (According to the Book)
according to the Book of Genesis, the son of Haran, and nephew of Abraham, by whom he was brought up. He afterward settled at Sodom, where he was taken prisoner by the King of Edom, but rescued by Abraham. When Sodom was about to be destroyed, two angels came to Lot and obliged him to quit the place with his wife and daughters, when the former, for looking back, was turned into a pillar of salt. By his daughters he became the father of two sons, named Moab and Ammon, from whom sprung the Moabites and Ammonites.
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Lot (Department in the S of France)
a department in the S. of France, formed out of parts of the old province of Guienne, and comprising the arrondissements of Cahors, Gourdon, and Figeac, watered by the Dordogne and the Lot; area 2,017 square miles; pop., King of Sicily. about 220,000. The E. districts are invaded by the Causses plateaus of the Cévennes; the valleys fertile; wheat, maize, tobacco, fruits, chestnuts, and especially wine are the more important products. Sheep-breeding is largely carried on. Milling, tanning, flax mills, and the manufacture of woolens are the only branches of industry. Capital, Cahors.
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Lot-Et-Garonne
a department in the S. W. of France, formed out of parts of the old provinces of Guienne and Gascony, and comprising the arrondissements of Agen, Villeneuve, Marmande, and Nérac, watered by the Garonne and its tributaries, the Gers and Lot; ot; area 2,078 square miles; pop. about 275,000. The department is a rolling plain and extremely fertile, except in the S. W., where it is invaded by the landes; principal products wheat, maize, wine (20,000,000 gallons annually), hemp, fruits (the plums of Agen are particularly celebrated), tobacco, potatoes, flax, and oil-plants; pine, cork, and chestnut woods are numerous; poultry are reared in great numbers for exportation; manufacturing is confined chiefly to metal-works, paper-mills, woolen and cork factories, distilleries, and tanneries. Capital, Agen. LOTHAIRE I., Roman Emperor, eldest son of LOUIS LE DÉBONNAIRE (q. v.); born about 795. In 817 he was associated with his father in the empire, and named King of the Lombards in 820. He afterward dethroned his father. After his father's death, father's Louise and Charlesbis joined forces, defeated Lothaire at Fontenoy, in 841. Two years afterward, the three brothers entered into a treaty at Verdun by which Lothaire retained the title of emperor, with Italy and some French provinces beyond the Rhine and the Rhone. Died in 855. LOTHAIRE II., Emperor of Germany, and Duke of Saxony, bet between 1125 and 1137. He died in Italy, on his return from an expedition against Roger,
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Lothians
THE. Name applied to three counties of Scotland, Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Haddington. This name formerly included all the section of Scotland held by the English in the eleventh century, a territory larger than the three counties.
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Lothrop
HARRIET MULFORD, pseudonym MARGARET SIDNEY, an Amer- Vol. VI-Cyc-A As by Fire " ( Name " ( 1883); ( 1885); " The "Our Davie Pepper" (1916); etc. joined the French navy during the ican novelist, wife of the publisher, D. World War. Lothrop; born in New Haven, Conn., in 1844. She founded and is honorary pres-
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Loti
PIERRE (lō-tē'), a French poet 1890, notably in Louisiana. In the latter and novelist; real name LOUIS MARIE year they were suppressed there, too, JULIEN VIAUD; born in Rochefort, Jan. and Congress in the same year prohibited 15, 1850. He was a French naval officer the transmission of lottery tickets or until 1898 and in 1891 was elected a memadvertisements through the mails, and in 1894 their importation.
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Loughborough
a market-town of Leicestershire, England, with a population in 1920 of about 23,000. From a bell foundry located there came the great bell of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The chief industry is hosiery manufacture, but there are also iron mills and dye works. It is one of the few cities in England not represented in Parliament.
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LOUIS II
surnamed "the Stammerer," was the son of Charles "the Bald." He was king of France from 877-879.
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LOUIS III
the son of Louis II , ruled 879-882.
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LOUIS IV
the son of Charles "the Simple," was taken to England for safety while he was a child. He was for that reason surnamed "Over Sea." He ruled from 936-954.
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Louis Philippe
King of the French; born in Paris, France, Oct. 6, 1773. He was the eldest son of Duke Louis Philippe Joseph of Orleans, surnamed Egalité, and during his father's lifetime he was known as Duke of Chartres. He entered the army in 1791, and favoring the popular cause in the Revolution he took part in the battles of Valmy and Jemappes; was present at the bombardment of Venloo and Maestricht, and distinguished himself at Neerwinden from. For 21 years he remained exiled countries France and, living in America in various. European uropean had become Duke of Orleans on the death of his father in 1793, and in 1809 he married the daughter of Ferdinand IV. of Naples. After the fall of Napoleon I. he returned to France and was reinstated in his rank and property. At the revolution of July, 1830, he made "Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom," and in August became king of the French. He reigned for 18 years, when the revolution of 1848 drove him from the throne to England, where he remained till his death in Claremont, Aug. 26, 1850.
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Louis Quatorze
the name given to a meretricious style of architecture and internal decoration which prevailed in France in the reign of Louis XIV. It was marked by a deterioration of taste, the natural laws of architecture being more and more neglected, and replaced by certain conventional rules for the application of the Roman columnar orders. The windows are larger, the rooms more lofty, than in the preceding period, and in everything there was a striving after pomp and sumptuousness. Gilt stucco work was largely used, the scroll and shell patterns being the characteristic features of ornamental decoration, the panels being formed by chains of scrolls, concave and convex alternately, but symmetry of arrangement was largely neglected.
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Louis Quinze
the name sometimes given to the style of architecture and internal ornamentation prevailing in France during the reign of Louis XV. It is often known under the designation Rococo (q. v.). Internal arrangement and decoration are the main characteristics of the style of this period, and in this direction the best results were doubtless obtained. Large and lofty rooms, as well as scope of display, were indispensable; consequently this style of embellishment was most happily carried out in state apartments, especially in princely castles and palaces and the mansions of the aristocracy. Curved lines superseded all straight straight lines both in ground plans and in designs, while the most ordinary and characteristic embellishments were volutes, shell-fish and scrolls, groups of fruit, garlands of flowers, hangings, etc.
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