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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

In truth, the spirit of conciliation which L'Hospital had been at so much pains to inculcate had found little welcome in the breast of the prelates.

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

L'Hospital had but a few months before been urging to a course of political integrity, and pointing out the rock on which all previous plans of pacification had split.

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

It is high time for you to drop your mask," he said to L'Hospital, "for, as for myself, I cannot discover what religion you are of.

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

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