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Definition of Louis the great
1. Noun. King of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Louis The Great
Literary usage of Louis the great
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. France Under the Regency: With a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV by James Breck Perkins (1892)
"... V. louis the great. WHEN the title of " the Great " was conferred upon Louis
XIV. by the authorities of Paris in 1680, it was deemed well deserved alike ..."
2. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"Louie XIV. died 171-1; his son Louis, the great dauphin, died before bis father,
1711 ; and the sou of the dauphin, called Louie the little dauphin (due do ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Thus, during the last twelve years of his reign, the dominions of Louis the Great
included the greater part of central Europe, from Pomerania to the Danube, ..."
4. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"I began under Louis the Great to be in vogue,—slight, long, flat, narrow, of a
very slight material. The most unskilled fingers cut me in their way; ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Louis the Great, had supported Urban VI, and his successors, Maria and Sigismund,
also sided with the Roman Curia. Sigismund, indeed, in 1403 renounced ..."
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