* 1767 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French military leader and politician ( d. 1794 )

In 1782 Antoine Beauvilliers, pastry chef to the future Louis XVIII, opened one of the most popular restaurants of the time – the Grande Taverne de Londres – in the arcades of the Palais-Royal.

French frigate Boudeuse ( 1766 ) | Boudeuse, of Louis Antoine de Bougainville

* 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France during the French Revolution.

Tomb of Philippe Pot, governor of Burgundy ( region ) | Burgundy under Louis XI, by Antoine Le Moiturier

Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I ( c. 1507 – 77 ), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II ( born 1522 ) and Antoine ( born 1523 ).

* 1729 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer ( d. 1811 )

In 1768 Pierre-Antoine Véron, a young astronomer accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of exploration, established the width of the Pacific with precision for the first time in history.

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

Europeans did not return until 1768, when Louis Antoine de Bougainville rediscovered the islands.

** Louis Antoine, Belgian miner / sect leader

* July 6 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1775 )

* June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.

** Louis Charles Antoine Desaix, French military leader ( killed in battle ) ( b. 1768 )

* March 21 – Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien ( executed ) ( b. 1772 )

* August 25 – Louis Antoine Leon de Saint-Just, French revolutionary ( d. 1794 )

* August 20 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander ( b. 1729 )

* May 10 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general ( d. 1809 )

* March 16 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile, with the loss of only seven out of 330 men ; among the returning crew is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe.

* November 12 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French navigator and military commander ( d. 1811 )

* Blaise Pascal's Lettres provinciales, a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, is ordered to be shredded and burned by King Louis XIV of France.

In the later 18th century, the published voyages of Captain James Cook and Louis Antoine de Bougainville seemed to open a glimpse into an unspoiled Edenic culture that still existed in the un-Christianized South Seas.

This voyage went to Brazil, where Banks made the first scientific description of a now common garden plant, bougainvillea ( named after Cook's French counterpart, Louis Antoine de Bougainville ), and to other parts of South America.

* 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1712 )

* Afonso, Duke of Porto, son of Louis I of Portugal.

On the fall of the great emperor, Louis XVIII presented this statue to the British government, by whom it was afterwards given to the Duke of Wellington.

* 1974 – Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou

Aldona had two daughters, Cunigunde ( died in 1357 ), who married Louis VI the Roman, the son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, on 1 January 1345, and Elisabeth ( died in 1361 ), who was married to Duke Bogislaus V of Pomerania.

Nonetheless Charles is a member of a pantheon of famous Napoleonic figures that includes the Emperor himself, Louis Nicolas Davout, Andre Massena, Karl von Schwarzenberg, Mikhail Kutuzov, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and the aforementioned Duke of Wellington.

The Duke of Marlborough had intended the 1705 campaign – an invasion of France through the Moselle valley – to complete the work of Blenheim and persuade King Louis XIV to make peace, but the plan had been thwarted by both friend and foe alike.

* Louis II ( 1810 ), also Grand Duke of Berg ( 1809 – 1813 )

* then to Louis II, Duke of Orléans, of the Orléans branch of the Valois, who became Louis XII of France,

* Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, Legitimist ( Blancs d ' Espagne ) pretender to France since 1989.

The daughters from this marriage were Cunigunde ( d. 1357 ), who was married to Louis VI the Roman, the son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Elisabeth, who was married to Duke Bogislaus V of Pomerania.

On the same day the French King Louis XII named Cesare Duke of Valentinois, and this title, along with his former position as Cardinal of Valencia, explains the nickname " Valentino ".

On his deathbed Charles II had bequeathed the entire Spanish inheritance to Louis XIV's grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou.

The Duke also insisted to his companions that his death be kept a secret until Louis was informed – the men were to journey from Saint James across the Pyrenees as quickly as possible, to call at Bordeaux to notify the Archbishop, and then to make all speed to Paris, to inform the King.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

His maternal grandparents were Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort.

David Kahanamoku, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Prince Edward, and Duke Kahanamoku, c. 1920. After his war service, and having been promoted to sub-lieutenant on 15 January 1919, Mountbatten attended Christ's College, Cambridge for two terms where he studied engineering in a programme that was specially designed for ex-servicemen.

The family tree of Louis III, Duke of Württemberg | Ludwig Herzog von Württemberg ( ruled 1568 – 1593 )

Abbot Suger arranged the 1137 marriage between Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine in Bordeaux, which made Louis VII Duke of Aquitaine and gave him considerable power.

Louis VII was once a very powerful monarch and was now facing a much stronger vassal, who was his equal as King of England and his strongest prince as Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine.