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Louis XI

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Louis XI
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(Biographies / Louis XI (1423-1483) M, French, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 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
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Noun1.Louis XI - king of France who put down an alliance of unruly nobles and unified France except for Brittany (1423-1483)Louis XI - king of France who put down an alliance of unruly nobles and unified France except for Brittany (1423-1483)
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[*] Louis XII divorced his wife, Jeanne, daughter of Louis XI, and married in 1499 Anne of Brittany, widow of Charles VIII, in order to retain the Duchy of Brittany for the crown.
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The two extremities of this gigantic parallelogram were occupied, the one by the famous marble table, so long, so broad, and so thick that, as the ancient land rolls--in a style that would have given Gargantua an appetite--say, "such a slice of marble as was never beheld in the world"; the other by the chapel where Louis XI.
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At last Louis XIII made Treville the captain of his Musketeers, who were to Louis XIII in devotedness, or rather in fanaticism, what his Ordinaries had been to Henry III, and his Scotch Guard to Louis XI.
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