* 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.

In 1924, Louis de Broglie proposed that all particles behave to an extent like waves.

* 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason ( d. 1759 )

* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress, who was considered the most powerful woman in France at the time.

* 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French explorer ( d. 1842 )

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

** Louis de Montfort

In 1752, the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille subdivided it into Carina ( the keel, or the hull, of the ship ), Puppis ( the poop deck, or stern ), and Vela ( the sails ).

Antlia was created in 1756 by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who created fourteen constellations for the southern sky to fill some faint regions.

De Amore was written at the request of Marie de Champagne, daughter of King Louis VII of France and of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Louis de Wohl worked as an astrologer for the British intelligence agency MI5, after it was claimed that Hitler used astrology to time his actions.

* 1713 – Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France ( d. 1793 )

* Schmidt, Hanns Peter: The Origin of Ahimsa, in: Mélanges d ' Indianisme à la mémoire de Louis Renou, Paris 1968

Toward the latter half of the 17th century, Louis XIV founded his ' Académie Royale de Musique et de Danse ', where specific rules for the execution of every dance and the " five positions " of the feet were formulated for the first time by members of the Académie.

After the French chemists Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac approved the experiments of the young pharmacist Balard, the results were presented at a lecture of the Académie des Sciences and published in Annales de Chimie et Physique.

" Approval from Louis arrived on 27 June: Tallard was to reinforce Marsin and the Elector on the Danube via the Black Forest, with 40 battalions and 50 squadrons ; Villeroi was to pin down the Allies defending the Lines of Stollhofen, or, if the Allies should move all their forces to the Danube, he was to join with Marshal Tallard ; and General de Coignies with 8, 000 men, would protect Alsace.

* Louis de Blois ( 1506 – 66 )

In addition to Bonaparte himself, Louis Alexandre Berthier, Auguste de Marmont, Jean Lannes, Joachim Murat, Louis Desaix, Jean Reynier, Antoine-François Andréossy, Jean-Andoche Junot, Louis-Nicolas Davout and Dumas were all passengers on the cramped Mediterranean crossing.

The Saint-Esprit church was part of a bigger complex built by Louis XI to care for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela.

* http :// www. chateaudevayres. com / home. html In French and English, with views of the Castle by Louis de Foix, the 16th century French Engineer who deviated the River Adour near Bayonne.

A costume design for Louis XIV as The Rising Sun, from the final entrée of Le Ballet de la Nuit ( 1653 ).