* 1870 – Louis Vierne, French organist ( d. 1937 )

* June 2 – Louis Vierne, French composer ( b. 1870 )

By the end of the 19th century, some French organists ( e. g., Charles-Marie Widor and his students Charles Tournemire and Louis Vierne ) named some of their organ compositions symphony: Their instruments ( many built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll ) allowed an orchestral approach ( Kaye 2001 ; Smith 2001 ; Thomson 2001 ).

" Vierne, Louis (- Victor-Jules )".

Among the best-known organists at Notre Dame was Louis Vierne, who held this position from 1900 to 1937.

Pierre Cochereau initiated further alterations ( many of which were already planned by Louis Vierne ), including the electrification of the action between 1959 and 1963.

* 1900: Louis Vierne is appointed organist of Notre-Dame de Paris after a heavy competition ( with judges including Charles-Marie Widor ) against the 500 most talented organ players of the era.

On 2 June 1937 Louis Vierne dies at the cathedral organ ( as was his lifelong wish ) near the end of his 1750th concert.

* Louis Vierne

However, in a manner befitting the Chapel's French architectural style and French-inspired organ, its speciality is perhaps the music of the great late French tradition, taking in the Masses of Louis Vierne, Maurice Duruflé, Jean Langlais, Charles-Marie Widor and Gabriel Fauré, as well as the motets of Marcel Dupré, Francis Poulenc, Pierre Villette and Olivier Messiaen.

After showing improvisation skills on the piano Messiaen studied organ with Marcel Dupré and inherited the tradition of great French organists ( Dupré had studied with Charles-Marie Widor and Louis Vierne, Vierne in turn was a pupil of César Franck ).

The development of symphonic organ music continued with Louis Vierne and Charles Tournemire.

In 1927, Louis Vierne nominated him as his assistant at Notre-Dame.

* Louis Vierne: Soirs étrangers op.

* Louis Vierne: Ballade du désespéré op.

* Louis Vierne: Trois Improvisations for organ ( Notre-Dame-de-Paris, November 1928 ), transcribed by Maurice Duruflé ( 1954 ):

Louis Victor Jules Vierne ( 8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937 ) was a French organist and composer.

Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music.

After completing school in the provinces, Louis Vierne entered the Paris Conservatory.

: See List of compositions by Louis Vierne.

Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral.

* Louis Vierne: Complete Organ Works: Pierre Cochereau & George C. Baker, organ ; Solstice ; 7 CDs

* Louis Vierne: Complete Organ Works: Christine Kamp, organ ; Festivo ; 8 CDs completed of 10

* Louis Vierne: Complete Organ Works: Ben van Oosten, organ ; MDG ; 9 CDs

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

They were parents to a daughter, Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, ( 1500 – 1553 ) who first married Louis II de La Tremouille, Governor of Burgundy, and secondly Philippe de Bourbon ( 1499 – 1557 ), Seigneur de Busset.

A scene from Louis Lumière's La Sortie des usines Lumière ( 1895 )

Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe and their L ' Arrivée d ' un train en gare de La Ciotat in Paris in 1895 is considered by many historians as the official birth of cinematography.

* 1957 Entretiens sur le musée de Dresde ( with Louis Aragon ) – La Corrida du 1er mai

* Collection of three vinyl recordings of Jean Cocteau including La Voix humaine by Simone Signoret, 18 songs composed by Louis Bessières, Bee Michelin and Renaud Marx, on double-piano Paul Castanier, Le Discours de réception à l ' Académie Française, Jacques Canetti JC1, 1984

The La Caze Collection, a bequest to the Musée du Louvre in 1869 by Louis La Caze was the largest contribution of a person in the history of the Louvre.

When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by here the Mississippi River for France, he named it, meaning " Land of Louis ".

Louis was born on 25 April 1214 at Poissy, near Paris, the son of Prince Louis the Lion and Blanche of Castile, and baptised in La Collégiale Notre-Dame church. His grandfather was King Philip II of France.

Mahé de La Bourdonnais established Port Louis as a naval base and a shipbuilding centre.

Lake Superior's Isles Phelipeaux and Pontchartrain, which appeared on explorers ' maps for many years, were named for Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de La Vrilliere, comte de Pontchartrain.

Image: Louis15-1. jpg | Maurice Quentin de La Tour, a bravura pastel portrait of Louis XV, 1748

However, they were defeated in the National League Division Series by the Tony La Russa-led St. Louis Cardinals, 3 games to 0.

It was the capital of France at the time of Louis XI, who had settled in the castle of Montils ( today the castle of Plessis in La Riche, western suburbs of Tours ), Tours and Touraine remained until the 16th century a permanent residence of the kings and court.

* Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette of France ( 1554 – 1642 ), nobleman

* August 24 – Comédie-Française is founded by decree of Louis XIV of France as La maison de Molière in Paris.

* 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.

* June 7 – Louise de La Vallière, mistress of King Louis XIV of France ( b. 1644 )

Wider views of Cubism include artists who were later associated with the ‘ Salle 41 ’ artists, e. g., Francis Picabia ; the brothers Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, who from late 1911 formed the core of the Section d ' Or ( or the Puteaux Group ); the sculptors Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky and Ossip Zadkine as well as Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens ; and painters such as Louis Marcoussis, Roger de La Fresnaye, František Kupka, Diego Rivera, Léopold Survage, Auguste Herbin, André Lhote, Gino Severini ( after 1916 ), María Blanchard ( after 1916 ) and Georges Valmier ( after 1918 ).

King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

Scorsese particularly highlights the series of biographies Rossellini made in the 60's of historical figures and, although he does not discuss it in detail, singles out La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV for praise.

* La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV ( 1966 )

James Louis Sobieski ( full name in Polish: Jakub Ludwik Henryk Sobieski ; 2 November 1667 – 19 December 1737 ) was the son of King John III of Poland and Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d ' Arquien.