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L'Hospital

American  
[law-pee-tal, loh-pi-tal] / lɔ piˈtal, ˌloʊ pɪˈtæl /
Or L'Hôpital

noun

  1. Guillaume François Antoine de 1661–1704, French mathematician.


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L'Hospital gave in his resignation on the 1st of February, 1573, and died six weeks afterwards, on the 18th of March.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert

The agent, more enlightened than his chief, denied the fact, adding, "They are a fine bit of rubbish left, L'Hospital and his wife."

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert

Five or six times in one day they returned to the charge, although L'Hospital mournfully observed that he had abandoned hope.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

All the spoils of the Condés distributed amongst the sbires of the favourite,—Normandy to Harcourt, Champagne to L’Hospital, &c.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

The arguments of L'Hospital which I have laid before the reader furnish sufficient proof.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

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