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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 Robert Black

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 Robert Black

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 Henry Martyn Baird

Chancellor L'Hospital distinguished himself by his determined opposition, and boldly refuted the churchman's arguments.

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

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 Sutherland Menzies

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