Example sentences for: louis-

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  • But Lower Canada’s pragmatic Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine accepted the British framework as a means of asserting the Québécois’ right to equal representation.

  • They reasserted their rights in the insurrection of July 1830 — the kind of liberal revolution they would have preferred back in 1789 — paving the way for the “bourgeois monarchy” of Louis-Philippe.

  • Louis-François Cartier founded the Paris firm in 1847, just in time to help deck the famous beauties of the Second Empire, from the empress to the great cocottes.

  • It is the family home of the controversial 19th-century politician Louis-Joseph Papineau, leader of the militant patriotes but also cautious protector of his seigneurial property (see page 19).

  • Branches were soon opened in London and New York by Louis-François' sons to serve Victorian magnates on both sides of the Atlantic, and eventually a Cartier grandson married the granddaughter of Worth, the world famous couturier , as if to consolidate the whole international luxury-goods network.


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