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Louis XI

American  

noun

  1. 1423–83, king of France 1461–83 (son of Charles VII).


Louis XI British  

noun

  1. 1423–83, king of France (1461–83); involved in a struggle with his vassals, esp the duke of Burgundy, in his attempt to unite France under an absolute monarchy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In 1464 the Papal Legate Teodoro Lelli, Bishop of Treviso, accompanied the Lord Bishop of Ostia on a mission to the court of Louis XI of France.

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According to Historian Paul Murray Kendall, Louis XI was a far more complicated character than legend implies.

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This 15th-Century pile is officially a historical monument in which there is no electric light, but Mr. and Mrs. Biddle seemed to enjoy groping among romantic shadows in a former residence of King Louis XI.

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In 1475, England's Edward IV and France's Louis XI met in the mid dle of a bridge spanning the Somme near Amiens, with a thick oaken lattice separating them, to settle a war in Picardy.

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Will they cut it up into pieces, as it was before old Louis XI.?

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.

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