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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, when sending the seals to the queen-mother, who demanded them of him, considered it his bounden duty to give her without any mincing, and the king whom she governed, a piece of patriotic advice.

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

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

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

L'Hospital announced that the special object of the present meeting was to devise the means of allaying the seditions which had arisen in consequence of religious differences.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

"Sir," said L'Hospital, turning to the Cardinal of Lorraine, "you are already come to sow discord among us!"

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

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