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Fréron, Louis Marie Stanislas

(Encyclopedia) Fréron, Louis Marie StanislasFréron, Louis Marie Stanislaslwē märēˈ stänēsläsˈ [key]Fréron, Louis Marie Stanislas frārôNˈ [key], 1754–1802, French revolutionary; son of Élie Fréron.…

Guillemin, Roger Charles Louis

(Encyclopedia) Guillemin, Roger Charles LouisGuillemin, Roger Charles LouisgēyəmăNˈ [key], 1924–, French-American physiologist, b. Dijon, France. Educated in France, he fought for the resistance…

Gresset, Jean Baptiste Louis

(Encyclopedia) Gresset, Jean Baptiste LouisGresset, Jean Baptiste LouiszhäN bätēstˈ lwē grĕsāˈ [key], 1709–77, French poet and dramatist. He was the author of a mock epic, Vairvert (1734), and of a…

Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis

(Encyclopedia) Girodet-Trioson, Anne-LouisGirodet-Trioson, Anne-Louisän-lwē zhērôdāˈ-trēôzôNˈ [key], 1767–1824, French painter. Originally named Girodet de Roussy or Roucy, he was a student of J.-L.…

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis

(Encyclopedia) Gay-Lussac, Joseph LouisGay-Lussac, Joseph Louiszhôzĕfˈ lwē gā-lüsäkˈ [key], 1778–1850, French chemist and physicist. He was professor in Paris at the Sorbonne, at the Polytechnic…

Garnier, Jean Louis Charles

(Encyclopedia) Garnier, Jean Louis CharlesGarnier, Jean Louis CharleszhäN lwē shärl [key]Garnier, Jean Louis Charles gärnyāˈ [key], 1825–98, French architect, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and…

Garnier-Pagès, Louis Antoine

(Encyclopedia) Garnier-Pagès, Louis AntoineGarnier-Pagès, Louis Antoinelwē [key]Garnier-Pagès, Louis AntoineäNtwänˈ [key]Garnier-Pagès, Louis Antoine gärnyāˈ-päzhĕsˈ [key], 1803–78, French…

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 1950–, American scholar and critic, b. Keyser, W.Va., B.A. Yale, 1973, Ph.D. Cambridge, 1979, where he studied with Wole Soyinka. Gates is an expert on African…

Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis

(Encyclopedia) Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte LouisFizeau, Armand Hippolyte LouisärmäNˈ ēpôlētˈ lwē fēzōˈ [key], 1819–96, French physicist. The first to measure (1849) the velocity of light in air, he also…

Montcalm, Louis Joseph de

(Encyclopedia) Montcalm, Louis Joseph deMontcalm, Louis Joseph demŏntkämˈ, Fr. lwē zhôzĕfˈ də môNkälmˈ [key], 1712–59, French general. His name in fuller form was Louis Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon,…