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Louis organised a coalition against Henry, including Stephen, Eustace, Henry the Count of Champagne, and Robert the Count of Perche.
The throne of Navarre went its separate way, to Joan of France, daughter of Louis X, who became Joan II of Navarre.
In the early 14th century, the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV, also Bavarian duke, vested the Kufstein citizens with rights of jurisdiction.
But his later years were marred by quarrels with his eldest son and heir, the Dauphin Louis, who refused to obey him.
From 1415 onwards, his son and successor Duke Louis VII had the Fortress largely rebuilt and expanded.
Louis XI gave, in 1475, the crown of Margaret of York, and, in 1481, another arm reliquary of Charlemagne.
Louis feared a further escalation of the conflict against this formidable coalition.
A European school led by Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet asserted that there was a gap between the earlier and later.
Prior to John XXII's election, a contest had begun for the Holy Roman Empire's crown between Louis IV of Bavaria and Frederick I of Austria.
Louis fell ill and withdrew from the campaign, and Geoffrey was forced to come to terms with Henry.
However, Louis IV had silenced the papal claims and John XXII stayed the rest of his life in Avignon.
He was succeeded by his cousin, the Duke of Orleans, who became Louis XII of France.
In January of that year Louis entered Rome and had himself crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
The last years of Charles VII were marked by conflicts with his turbulent son, the future Louis XI of France.
The king summoned Louis to him from his exile in Burgundy, but the Dauphin refused to come.
Although he asked the Dauphin to come to his deathbed, Louis refused, instead waiting at Avesnes, in Burgundy, for his father to die.
In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli asserts that if his son Louis XI had continued this policy, then the French would have become invincible.
Louis XII married his predecessor's widow, Anne of Brittany, in order to retain that province for France.
The French public favored war, though Vergennes and King Louis XVI were hesitant, owing to the military and financial risk.
Mohawk leaders Joseph Louis Cook and Joseph Brant sided with the Americans and the British respectively, and this further exacerbated the split.
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From 1499 to 1512, excepting a brief period in 1500, Louis XII was Duke of Milan.
Louis X left only a daughter, and his posthumous son John I lived only a few days.
Transportation Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago by Louis Sullivan.
The Flight of Souls Window by Louis Comfort Tiffany won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
In the United States, the firm of Louis Comfort Tiffany played a central role in American Art Nouveau.
They often collaborated with the furniture designer Louis Majorelle, whose home and workshops were in Nancy.
Philip, Count of Poitiers, brother of Louis X, asserted that women were ineligible to succeed to the French throne.
The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.
Further south, Theobald V, the Count of Blois, an enemy of Louis, became another early ally of Henry.
In 1957 Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke and First Sea Lord Louis Mountbatten began corresponding on the project.
Historians have always compared Henry VII with his continental contemporaries, especially Louis XI of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Between 1998 and 2012, the Super Cup was played at the Stade Louis II in Monaco.
In the late 20th century a model of European state formation was prominent in which Henry less resembles Louis and Ferdinand.
Despite Louis controlling Westminster Abbey, he could not be crowned king because the English Church and the Papacy backed Henry.
When he learnt that Louis had divided his army, William Marshal gambled on defeating the rebels in a single battle.
On 24 August 1217, a French fleet arrived off the coast of Sandwich, bringing Louis soldiers, siege engines and fresh supplies.
Henry renewed his father's friendship with Louis XII of France, an issue that divided his council.
For a short while, a permanent peace between Henry and Louis looked plausible.
Meanwhile, Louis VIII of France allied himself with Hugh de Lusignan and invaded first Poitou and then Gascony.
Henry could only send a small force of soldiers to assist, and Brittany fell to Louis in November.
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Henry shared many of his religious views with Louis of France, and the two men appear to have been slightly competitive in their piety.
Henry's campaign was hesitant and was further undermined by Hugh switching sides and returning to support Louis.
In particular, Henry cultivated Frederick II, hoping he would turn against Louis or allow his nobility to join Henry's campaigns.
Louis took no action to intervene as Henry steadily increased his power in Brittany.
With the regicide of King Louis XVI in 1793, the French Revolution represented a contest of ideologies between the two nations.
Almost immediately after the peace conference, however, Louis shifted his position considerably.
In autumn 1241, he left Syria and joined King Henry's campaign against King Louis IX in Poitou.
In 1248, Montfort again took the cross with the idea of following Louis IX of France to Egypt.
With few other options available, Montfort agreed to allow Louis IX of France to arbitrate their dispute.
Priory may also refer to schools operated or sponsored by the Benedictines, such as the Saint Louis Priory School or the Woodside Priory School.
An obsession with designer handbags, at ever-spiralling prices, became a phenomenon of the mid-noughties, driven principally by Louis Vuitton.
In 1216 a baronial plan to put Louis VIII of France on the throne of England in the First Barons' War was warmly welcomed by him.
Many individuals closely associated with Breton, notably Louis Aragon, left his group to work more closely with the Communists.
When Louis van Gaal was announced as Moyes' permanent replacement on 19 May 2014, Giggs was also appointed as Van Gaal's assistant manager.
In 1668, England allied itself with Sweden, and with its former enemy the Netherlands, to oppose Louis XIV in the War of Devolution.
Despite his championship, Louis was haunted by the earlier defeat to Schmeling.
It is a verdict that justifies the beliefs that nothing short of the annihilation of Louis would have given Farr victory.
That Louis won may not be disputed, but as I read the fight, there was only a fractional difference in his favour at the finish.
Louis made peace with the Triple Alliance, but he continued to maintain his aggressive intentions towards the Netherlands.
After the Louis fight, Farr was unsuccessful in several contests at Madison Square Garden, New York.
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Louis spent 12 years growing up in rural Alabama, where little is known of his childhood.
More likely, Louis simply omitted his last name to keep his boxing a secret from his mother.
Louis was to provide him with 6,000 troops to suppress those who opposed the conversion.
James was received in France by his cousin and ally, Louis XIV, who offered him a palace and a pension.
When training for a fight against Lee Ramage, Louis noticed a young female secretary for the black newspaper at the gym.
During this time, Louis also met Truman Gibson, the man who would become his personal lawyer.
Louis also betrothed his two daughters Marie and Alix to Theobald of Blois's sons, Theobald and Henry.
Louis and his handlers would counter the legacy of Johnson by emphasizing the Brown Bomber's modesty and sportsmanship.
If Louis were to rise to national prominence among such cultural attitudes, a change in management would be necessary.
While the mainstream press was beginning to embrace Louis, many still opposed the prospect of another black heavyweight champion.
Later that year, Louis also knocked out Paolino Uzcudun, who had never been knocked down before.
Schmeling was also 30 years old at the time of the Louis bout and allegedly past his prime.
Louis spent significant time on the golf course rather than training for the match.
On the night of the fight, June 22, 1937, Braddock was able to knock Louis down in round one, but afterward could accomplish little.
The bout was closely contested and went the entire 15 rounds, with Louis being unable to knock Farr down.
Nevertheless, after the score was announced, Louis had won a controversial unanimous decision.
Speaking over the radio after the fight, Louis admitted that he had been hurt twice.
In preparation for the inevitable rematch with Schmeling, Louis tuned up with bouts against Nathan Mann and Harry Thomas.
In 1160 Louis strengthened his alliances in central France with the Count of Champagne and Odo II, the Duke of Burgundy.
Following his defeat of Louis in 1936, Schmeling had become a national hero in Germany.
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When the rematch was scheduled, Louis retreated to his boxing camp in New Jersey and trained incessantly for the fight.
On the night of June 22, 1938, Louis and Schmeling met for the second time in the boxing ring.
Conn had the better of the fight through 12 rounds, although Louis was able to stun Conn with a left hook in the fifth, cutting his eye and nose.
Louis allied himself with the Welsh, Scots and Bretons, and the French king attacked Normandy.
By the twelfth round, Louis was exhausted, with Conn ahead on two of three boxing scorecards.
But against the advice of his corner, Conn continued to closely engage Louis in the later stages of the fight.
Louis made the most of the opportunity, knocking Conn out with two seconds left in the thirteenth round.
Louis XIV threatened the Dutch with an immediate declaration of war, should they carry out their plans.
For basic training, Louis was assigned to a segregated cavalry unit based in Fort Riley, Kansas.
Accordingly, Louis used this personal connection to help the cause of various black soldiers with whom he came into contact.
Among the OCS applications Louis facilitated was that of a young Jackie Robinson, later to break the baseball color barrier.
Louis went on a celebrity tour with other notables, including fellow boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
Although Louis never saw combat, his military service saw challenges of its own.
The MP tried to arrest them, but Louis forcefully argued the pair out of the situation.
On June 19, a disappointing 40,000 saw the rematch at Yankee Stadium, in which Louis was not seriously tested.
In February, Charles had made a deal with the French King Louis XIV, who promised to support him against the Whigs.
With the succession in 1714 of Elector George Louis of Hanover as King George I, the Whigs returned to government.
Louis was under no delusion about the state of his boxing skills, yet he was too embarrassed to quit after the Walcott fight.
Determined to win and retire with his title intact, Louis signed on for a rematch.
Walcott knocked Louis down in the third round, but Louis survived to knock out Walcott in the eleventh.
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In his bouts with Conn and Walcott, it had become apparent that Louis was no longer the fighter he had once been.
As he had done earlier in his career, however, Louis would continue to appear in numerous exhibition matches worldwide.
By then, Louis was 36 years old and had been away from competitive boxing for two years.
This would require the consent of Louis as king of France, and accordingly Henry and Louis held fresh peace talks in 1169 at Montmirail.
By the end of the fight, Louis was cut above both eyes, one of which was shut tight by swelling.
After Louis concluded peace with William in 1697, he ceased to offer much in the way of assistance to James.
Louis XIV of France, believing the war was over, began negotiations to extract as large a sum of money from the Dutch as possible.
Louis' secular power was much weaker than Henry's but Louis now had the moral advantage.
The Alps were where the first systematic scientific research on ice ages was conducted by Louis Agassiz at the beginning of the 19th century.
In January 1174 the forces of Young Henry and Louis attacked again, threatening to push through into central Normandy.
Arthur Conan Doyle worked in the Aston area of Birmingham whilst poet Louis MacNeice lived in Birmingham for six years.
Louis and Philip could now push overland into eastern Normandy and reached Rouen.
He was deposed in 922, and Eadgifu sent their son, Louis to safety in England.
In 1670, he entered into the secret treaty of Dover, an alliance with his first cousin King Louis XIV of France.
In March 1152, Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine had their marriage annulled under the pretext of consanguinity at the council of Beaugency.
However, Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight.
This among other things made Louis appear to be conspiring with the enemies of France.
The terms of the annulment left Eleanor as duchess of Aquitaine but still a vassal of Louis.
The unpopular Louis XVIII fled to Belgium after realizing he had little political support.
In 1840, Louis Philippe I obtained permission from the British to return Napoleon's remains to France.
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In July 1152, Capetian troops attacked Aquitaine while Louis, Eustace, Henry of Champagne, and Robert attacked Normandy.
Photography was realised in 1839 by Louis Daguerre in France and William Fox Talbot in Britain.
Luckily enough, Louis fell ill and had to retire from the conflict while Henry's defences held against his enemies.
Louis VIII of France briefly ruled about half of England from 1216 to 1217 at the conclusion of the First Barons' War against King John.
However, in signing the Treaty of Lambeth in 1217, Louis conceded that he had never been the legitimate king of England.
Louis on March 9, 1804, when a French tricolor was raised near the river, replacing the Spanish national flag.
And the reason he says that is because he's absolutely convinced that Louis has a little kyoodle in him. Tony means Louis'll quit if he's hit.
Louis would not interfere since Henry paid homage to him for his continental possessions.
A classical instance of ecmnesia is the celebrated case of Louis V., studied by many observers.
Louis did so but in October 1216, before the conflict was conclusively ended, John died.
He is depicted in the Academy Award winning 1936 film, The Story of Louis Pasteur, by Halliwell Hobbes.
In 1644 he became chaplain to Prince Charles Louis, nephew of King Charles I, who was then in England.
From 1648 Charles Louis was able to take up his position as Elector of the Palatinate on the Rhine, as a consequence of the Peace of Westphalia.
In 1920, Louis signed one of its first distribution contracts with Gustave Gueudet, an entrepreneur from northern France.
Louis Renault enlarged Renault's scope after 1918, producing agricultural and industrial machinery.
Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools.
If Louis VII died without a male heir, Henry would have been a strong candidate for the French throne.
Louis VII answered by raiding the Norman Vexin, forcing Henry II to move his troops north, giving Louis the opportunity to free Bourges.
It was a plan of Louis Quatorzian presumption, and we all know what happens to people who push their luck.
Accordingly, Louis stirred up dissent and fomented plots in attempts to destabilise his father's reign.
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The Delphin classics was an edition of the Latin classics prepared in the reign of Louis XIV for the use of the dauphin.
In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte's General Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Italy, imprisoning Pope Pius VI, who died in captivity.
John was deposed in 1216 and the barons offered the English throne to Prince Louis, the eldest son of the French king.
War continued between the factions supporting Louis and Henry, with Fitzwalter supporting Louis.
Louis seized Rochester, London, and Winchester, whilst John was deserted by several nobles, including the Earl of Salisbury.
Louis residents as fireworks are illegal within both city and county limits.
Louis believed in the Divine Right of Kings, the theory that the King was crowned by God and accountable to him alone.
Barrie, the epic adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and the celebrated poet Robert Burns.
In 781, he made his third son, Louis then 3 years of age, king of Aquitaine.
In 1324, Louis the Bavarian sided with the Spirituals and accused the pope of heresy.
In January of that year Louis of Bavaria entered Rome and had himself crowned emperor.
But in August Louis the Bavarian and his pope had to flee Rome before an attack by Robert, King of Naples.
He inherited Anjou in 1151 and shortly afterwards married Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose marriage to Louis VII of France had recently been annulled.
In 1872, five years after they wed, Louis died, but not before being wiped out financially in a stock market crash.
His son Louis was killed in 1918 while serving in the Royal Flying Corps in northern France.
Performers such Louis Killen, The High Level Ranters and Bob Davenport brought Northumbrian folk to national and international audiences.
The emperor Louis I, however, opposed this arrangement and gave the kingdom to his youngest son Charles, afterwards the emperor Charles the Bald.
Early in 1997, he held a 50th birthday party, costumed as Louis XIV, for 500 friends.
But when Eleanor was divorced from Louis and married Henry II of England in 1152, the duchy passed to the English Crown.
In June 2012 it was announced that Ritchie would direct an adaptation of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Henry's father advised him to come to terms with Louis and peace was made between them in August 1151 after mediation by Bernard of Clairvaux.
This trend soon spread outside of Italy, for example Louis III, Elector Palatine founded the Bibliotheca Palatina of Heidelberg.
Because of the contemporary accounts of his death, Louis X is history's first tennis player known by name.
Louis XIV further refined and popularized the game, and it swiftly spread among the French nobility.
Louis Games were celebrated roughly 650 athletes participated, but 580 were from the United States.
The highlight for the Greeks was the marathon victory by their compatriot Spiridon Louis, a water carrier.
In 2001, Eubank was the subject of a Louis Theroux documentary entitled When Louis Met.
The Champ de Mars is situated on a prestigious avenue in Port Louis, the capital city and is the oldest racecourse in the southern hemisphere.
Ferrari decided not to take part but there were a handful of Maseratis, one of them a factory car for Monegasque driver Louis Chiron.
Other private Talbots were entered by Louis Rosier, Philippe Etancelin and Belgian Johnny Claes, in a yellow car.
While Louis handled design and production, Marcel and Fernand managed the business.
Louis took full control of the company as the only remaining brother in 1906 when Fernand retired for health reasons.
The company's military designs were so successful that Louis was awarded the Legion of Honour for his company's contributions.
Meanwhile, the provisional government accused Louis Renault of collaborating with the Germans.
On 1 January 1945, by de Gaulle's decree, the company was posthumously expropriated from Louis Renault.
It was then reopened to the public in 1988 under a new management team headed by Louis Bizat.
Since 1983, Louis Vuitton has sponsored the Louis Vuitton Cup as a prize for the winner of the challenger selection series.
The Italians had previously beaten the AmericaOne syndicate from the St Francis Yacht Club in the Louis Vuitton Cup final.
Charles' later years were marked by hostile relations with his heir, Louis, who demanded real power to accompany his position as the Dauphin.
At around this time Henry was also probably secretly planning his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine, then still the wife of Louis.
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Louis gave his support to the three sons and even knighted Richard, tying them together through vassalage.
Louis was defeated and a peace treaty was signed in September 1174, the Treaty of Montlouis.
Louis built itself upon the vast fur trade in the West before its settlement.
When Henry II and Louis VII made a truce on 8 September 1174, its terms specifically excluded Richard.
Jazz was developed by innovators such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington early in the 20th century.
With a rumpled, folksy manner, he held court for years in the smoke-filled beer hall of the King Louis Hotel in Calgary.
Then, the key figure was Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, brother of Louis XVI's Queen Marie Antoinette.
Louis had the marriage annulled and Henry married Eleanor eight weeks later on 18 May.
On 8 September 1879 Sir Louis Cavagnari, in charge of the mission in Kabul, was killed with his entire staff by rebelling Afghan soldiers.
The blinding lights seen on Fifth and Madison Avenues are mirrorlike silver and gold daytime handbags from Louis Vuitton.
This was translated into French as Entente Cordiale and used by Louis Philippe I in the French Chamber that year.
The war was not going well for the loyalists, but Prince Louis and the rebel barons were also finding it difficult to make further progress.
With his new lands, Henry now possessed a much larger proportion of France than Louis.
Louis returned at the end of April, but his northern forces were defeated by William Marshal at the Battle of Lincoln in May.
Windy, muggle-smoking Louis Armstrong has never had patience or skill to build an orchestra of his own.
France was nearly brought to its knees by 1709, when King Louis XIV made a desperate appeal to the French people.
In the absence of a settlement, Louis remained in London with his remaining forces, hoping for the arrival of reinforcements from France.
He had a long correspondence with fellow Scot Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived in Samoa at the time, but the two never met in person.
Robert Louis Stevenson's former home in Vailima, Samoa is now a museum dedicated to the later years of his life.
In 2011, Robert Louis Stevenson's open letter defending Father Damien from Rev.
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Louis left England as agreed and joined the Albigensian Crusade in the south of France, bringing the war to an end.
On his last night in London he had another in the company of his fellow poet Louis MacNeice.
Wollstonecraft left for Paris in December 1792 and arrived about a month before Louis XVI was guillotined.
As a young associate at a law firm hired by Julian Black, Gibson was charged with personally entertaining Louis during the pendency of business deals.
Louis accepted, landing in Kent on 21 May 1216, with 1,200 knights.
There's a building in St. Louis called the MEPS Building where doctors probe every crook and nanny of your body to see if you're physically fit enough to join the military.
It seemed that the fellas couldn't get enough girlin' and racing fast cars and grooving to rock and dudeing around in city-slick suits from St. Louis.
In vain he protested and claimed the protection of Louis XIV. The King at Versailles was busied with the saving of his soul and with the doctoring of his gangrened knee.
Charlemagne's successor, Louis the Pious, reportedly treated the Saxons more as Alcuin would have wished, and as a consequence they were faithful subjects.
These children included Geoffrey, William, Peter and four children who died young by Alys, the daughter of Louis VII, while she was betrothed to his son Richard.
Despite the Treaty of Lambeth, hostilities continued and Henry was forced to compromise with the newly crowned Louis VIII of France and Henry's stepfather, Hugh X of Lusignan.
Louis died before Edward's arrival, but Edward decided to continue.
In 1513, he was executed after Richard de la Pole, whom Louis XII of France had recognised as king of England the previous year, claimed the kingship in his own right.
Eleanor was the Duchess of Aquitaine, a land in the south of France, and was considered beautiful, lively and controversial, but had not borne Louis any sons.
Henry invaded Toulouse, only to find Louis visiting Raymond in the city.
In practice, however, Louis perceived himself to have gained a temporary advantage, and immediately after the conference he began to encourage tensions between Henry's sons.
Louis seized on the case, and, despite efforts by the Norman church to prevent the French church from taking action, a new interdict was announced on Henry's possessions.
To put additional pressure on Louis, Henry mobilised his armies for war.
Louis was not concerned with the events in Normandy and England.
Louis VII had been unsuccessful in his attempt to break Henry II down.
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Louis VII's daughter, Margaret, who was still a baby, was betrothed to Henry's heir, his eldest son, Henry the Young King with a dowry of the Norman Vexin.
Not to mention the least, Raymond V was married to Louis VII's sister therefore attacking Toulouse would have endangered the policy of peace with the King of France.
The attacks on Toulouse made clear that peace between Louis VII and Henry II wasn't peace at all but just an opportunity for Henry to make war elsewhere.
Philip aimed to crown his son, Louis, king of England, and at a council at Soissons in April 1213, he drafted a possible relationship between the future France and England.
In August, only Dover, Lincoln, and Windsor remained loyal to John in the east, and Alexander II of Scotland travelled to Canterbury to pay homage to Louis.
Louis received Provence and Burgundy as additions to his kingdom.
The three brothers made an oath at the French court that they would not make terms with Henry II without the consent of Louis VII and the French barons.
He marched on Verneuil, and Louis retreated from his forces.
Henry II returned to France and raised the siege of Rouen, where Louis VII had been joined by Henry the Young King after abandoning his plan to invade England.
It was suspected that Henry had appropriated Princess Alys, Richard's betrothed, the daughter of Louis VII of France by his second wife, as his mistress.
The rebel barons concluded that peace with John was impossible, and turned to Philip II's son, the future Louis VIII, for help, offering him the English throne.
In February 1217, Louis set sail for France to gather reinforcements.
Louis came down firmly in favour of Henry, but the French arbitration failed to achieve peace as the rebellious barons refused to accept the verdict.
Louis seldom relied on the fortunes of war, but on intrigue and diplomacy.
The Hundred Years' War almost resumed in 1474, when the duke Charles of Burgundy, counting on English support, took up arms against Louis XI of France.
Francis I likewise became king of France upon the death of Louis in 1515, leaving three relatively young rulers and an opportunity for a clean slate.
Olivares ordered a lightning campaign into northern France from the Spanish Netherlands, hoping to shatter the resolve of King Louis XIII's ministers and topple Richelieu.
In 1806, Napoleon dissolved the Batavian Republic and established a monarchy with his brother, Louis Bonaparte, on the throne as King of the Netherlands.
In 1854, Napoleon III named an enterprising French officer, Louis Faidherbe, to govern and expand the colony, and to give it the beginning of a modern economy.
Even Pope Innocent XI, an inveterate enemy of Louis XIV of France, provided a loan to William, though a relation with the invasion has been denied.
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Louis also hoped to keep his Turkish ally in the war this way.
For the immediate future James had to hold his own, something Louis expected him to be quite capable of, especially if the Dutch were intimidated.
Believing that his own army would be adequate, James refused the assistance of Louis XIV, fearing that the English would oppose French intervention.
Furthermore, Louis XIV alienated William III by recognising James Francis Edward Stuart, the son of the former King James II who had died in 1701, as de jure King of England.
In 1703 Louis pressed James into a more accommodating stance in the hopes of detaching England from the Grand Alliance, essentially promising to maintain the status quo.
French historians traditionally place the Enlightenment between 1715, the year that Louis XIV died, and 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution.
Auden grew up in the Harborne area of the city and during the 1930s formed the core of the Auden Group with Birmingham University lecturer Louis MacNeice.
While in theory King Louis XVI was an absolute monarch, in practice he was often indecisive and known to back down when faced with strong opposition.
Louis XVI ascended to the throne in the middle of a financial crisis in which the state was faced with a budget deficit and was nearing bankruptcy.
Louis XVI was increasingly dismayed by the direction of the revolution.
Napoleon escaped from Elba in 1815, gathering enough support to overthrow the monarchy of Louis XVIII, triggering a seventh, and final, coalition against him.
In 1955, the diaries of Napoleon's valet, Louis Marchand, were published.
That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.
Just before Charlemagne died in 814, he crowned Louis as his successor.
Louis the Pious died in 840, with the empire still in chaos.
At the instigation of Colbert, whose rigid honesty was scandalised by Fouquet's large-handed and prodigal corruption, Louis determined to curb these soaring aspirations.
Louis motor, long used in classrooms to illustrate motor principles, is extremely inefficient for the same reason, as well as appearing nothing like a modern motor.
Her father is an endocrinologist and lipidologist in St. Louis and an associate professor of clinical medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.
In 1751, Pierre Louis Maupertuis wrote of natural modifications occurring during reproduction and accumulating over many generations to produce new species.
After the French king Louis XIV declared Protestantism illegal in 1685 in the Edict of Fontainebleau, an estimated 50,000 Protestant Huguenots fled to England.
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Miss Huddle was unable to decide in her mind whether the action savoured of Louis Quatorzian courtliness or the reprehensible Roman attitude towards the Sabine women.
Charles was heavily influenced by the works of Louis XIV of France, imitating French design at his palace at Winchester and the Royal Hospital at Chelsea.
The treaty enregistred the defeat of French ambitions expressed in the wars of Louis XIV and preserved the European system based on the balance of power.
In return for protection and patronage Ockham wrote treatises that argued for emperor Louis to have supreme control over church and state in the Holy Roman Empire.
In The Imperial Votaress, Louis Montrose draws attention to male and female gender roles and norms present in the comedy in connection with Elizabethan culture.
The rise of the centralized court is one of the economic and political features of what is often labelled the Age of Absolutism, personified by Louis XIV of France.
In 1852, Louis Antoine Jullien the French eccentric composer of light music and conductor presented an opera of his own composition, Pietro il Grande.
Lionel Kessler, relaxing perhaps on a Louis Quinze day bed, garlanded all round with lines of beauty, seeing welcome proof that his clever maligned young friend was a mensch.
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Club won the right to sail in the America's Cup match easily beating the Italian and Swedish challengers in the Louis Vuitton Cup.
Louis was defeated at Mansura and captured as he retreated to Damietta.
Louis remained in Syria until 1254 to consolidate the Crusader states.
Shops here include Louis Vuitton, Mulberry and Calvin Klein.
The Revolutionary Wars began from increasing political pressure on King Louis XVI of France to prove his loyalty to the new direction France was taking.
Britain expelled the French ambassador following the execution of Louis XVI and on 1 February France responded by declaring war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.
Since the reign of Louis XIV, France has been strongly centralized.
Its rules were set down in 1699 by King Louis XIV, when it received the name of 'Royal Academy of Sciences' and was installed in the Louvre in Paris.
The classical arguments were reintroduced in the 18th century by Pierre Louis Maupertuis and others, including Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin.
Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done.
This provided Thomas with a regular income and brought him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished.
A massed military band of Australian, British and American forces played as Supreme Allied Commander Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma arrived.
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A crude border had already been drawn up by Lord Wavell, the Viceroy of India prior to his replacement as Viceroy, in February 1947, by Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Kufstein passed to the County of Tyrol in 1342, when it was a wedding gift to Countess Margaret from her husband, Emperor Louis's son Louis the Brandenburger.
In classical music, Jan Sweelinck ranks as the Dutch most famous composer, with Louis Andriessen amongst the best known living Dutch classical composers.
Louis IV was assisted in his doctrinal dispute with the papacy by Marsilius of Padua and later by the English Franciscan friar and scholar William of Ockham.
In 1328 Michael of Cesena was summoned to Avignon to explain the Order's intransigence in refusing the Pope's orders and its complicity with Louis of Bavaria.
James summoned sailors and sent the Scottish navy, including the Great Michael, to join the ships of Louis XII of France, so joining in the war of the League of Cambrai.
In this work, Voltaire deals with the history of Europe before Charlemagne to the dawn of the age of Louis XIV, also evoking that of the colonies and the East.
She declined him and later married Prince Louis of Liechtenstein.
In the United States, the most famous designer was Louis Comfort Tiffany, whose work was shown at the shop of Siegfried Bing and also at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
Unlike players who were often traded, baseball nomads who carried a hobo's bindle rather than a bat on their shoulders, Musial stayed put in St. Louis.
He generally ignores the traditional conventions of literary Scots, used for example by Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Orr.
Henry persuaded Louis to support his cause and mobilised an army.
When the news reached Louis, he entered into fresh peace negotiations.
Henry, Isabella, Louis, Guala and William came to agreement on the final Treaty of Lambeth, also known as the Treaty of Kingston, on the 12 and 13 September.
On the way back from Gascony, Henry met with Louis for the first time in an arrangement brokered by their wives, and the two kings became close friends.
Louis had strong views of his own on the rights of kings over those of barons, but was also influenced by his wife, Margaret, who was Eleanor's sister, and by the Pope.
In France, Eleanor made plans for an invasion of England with the support of Louis, while Edward escaped his captors in May and formed a new army.
He faced two more opponents in January, Earl Fisher in Cincinnati on the 26th followed by Leo Kelly in Saint Louis on the 29th, both were press decisions for Welsh.
Louis came back strongly and clinched a narrow points verdict.
Joe Louis had 69 professional fights with only three losses.

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