Upon the death of Louis XIV and the abandonment of Versailles, the Paris high society became the purveyors of style.

Characterized by elegant and refined yet playful subject matters, Boucher's style became the epitome of the court of Louis XV.

Following the treaty of Verdun of 843, Alemannia became a province of the eastern kingdom of Louis the German, the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire.

In the early 20th century, Louis Brandeis, later appointed to the United States Supreme Court, became noted for his use of policy-driving facts and economics in his briefs, and extensive appendices presenting facts that lead a judge to the advocate's conclusion.

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

Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

Claude Louis Berthollet ( 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822 ) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

During the reign of Louis XIV, himself a dancer, dance became more codified.

Between St. Louis and the confluence with the Ohio River to the south, the Mississippi became more wide and shallow, and changed its channel laterally.

He became mayor of the village after Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814.

Charles X had succeeded Louis XVIII in 1824, but in 1827 his party suffered a major electoral setback and by 1830 the opposition liberal party became the majority.

In 1898, Eureka became home to the St. Louis Children's Industrial Farm, established to give children from St. Louis tenement neighborhoods a chance to experience life in a rural setting.

In June 1917, when the Royal Family stopped using their German names and titles and adopted the more British-sounding " Windsor ": Prince Louis of Battenberg became Louis Mountbatten, and was created Marquess of Milford Haven.

Louis Delgrès and a group of revolutionary soldiers killed themselves on the slopes of the Matouba volcano when it became obvious that the invading troops would take control of the island.

Working with very limited resources, he became one of the founders of bacteriology, the other major figure being Louis Pasteur.

It is from Louis VI ( reigned 1108 – 1137 ) onward that royal authority became more accepted.

France became a truly centralised kingdom under Louis IX ( reigned 1226 – 1226 ).

Louis IX was only twelve years old when he became King of France.

Saint Louis also supported new forms of art such as Gothic architecture ; his Sainte-Chapelle became a very famous gothic building, and he is also credited for the Morgan Bible.

Philip III became king when Saint Louis died in 1270 during the Eighth Crusade.

The republican government also enforced the Système International d ' Unités ( International System of Units ), commissioned by Louis XVI, which became known as the Metric System.

Louis was personally involved in the assault and burning of the town of Vitry.

Prince Louis ( the future Louis VIII, reigned 1223 – 1226 ) was involved in the subsequent English civil war as French and English ( or rather Anglo-Norman ) aristocracies were once one and were now split between allegiances.

The Kingdom was involved in two crusades under Saint Louis: the Seventh Crusade and the Eighth Crusade.

However, Louis XIV's long reign saw France involved in many wars that drained its treasury.

Louis had been close to his wife, who had been involved in policymaking.

At Jonac, he declared Charles king of Aquitaine and deprived Pepin ( he was less harsh with the younger Louis ), restoring the whole rest of the empire to Lothair, not yet involved in the civil war.

Honorius soon became involved in the quarrel between King Louis VI of France and the French bishops.

His efforts to undo the mischief wrought in Rome by the long schism were almost entirely neutralized by a quarrel with his erstwhile supporter, Louis VII of France over the candidate for archbishop of Bourges, in the course of which that kingdom was laid under an interdict to press for the papal candidate, and by a struggle with the town of Tivoli in which he became involved.

Bristow discovered that the President's personal secretary Babcock was involved in the ring, Grant became defensive and eventually defended Babcock in an unprecedented 1876 deposition, which biographer McFeely contends was perjurious ; the deposition was read in St. Louis during the Whiskey Ring graft trials.

* Bishop Theodulf of Orléans is deposed and imprisoned, after becoming involved in a conspiracy of King Bernard of Italy against Louis the Pious.

Powell soon became Secretary to the Joint Intelligence Committee for India and Louis Mountbatten's South East Asia Command, involved in planning an amphibious offensive against Akyab, an island off the coast of Burma.

It was further exacerbated by Vergennes ' prodding Louis XVI to get involved in Great Britain's war with its North American colonies, due to France's traditional rivalry with Great Britain.

When the emperor Louis divided his dominions between his sons in 817, Louis received Bavaria and the neighbouring lands but did not undertake the governing of such until 825, when he became involved in wars with the Wends and Sorbs on his eastern frontier.

Louis VII then became involved in a war with Theobald II of Champagne, by permitting Raoul I of Vermandois and seneschal of France, to repudiate his wife, Theobald II's niece, and to marry Petronilla of Aquitaine, sister of the queen of France.

Louis VII was personally involved in the assault and burning of the town of Vitry-le-François.

While the National Assembly worked painstakingly towards a constitution, Louis and Marie-Antoinette were involved in plans of their own.

Louis was also involved in 19th century weather modification projects, and was able to illustrate the ability to modify clouds at will in the mid-1890s, long before General Electric found that clouds could be modified using dry ice.

Louis was also involved with early aircraft development and had attempted to develop a helicopter, but his noted successes relate to high-explosive ordnance ( especially fuses ).

Meanwhile, Louis the German was involved with disputes with his three sons.

As a young man, he settled in Italy, where he and his elder brother Napoléon Louis espoused liberal politics and became involved with the Carbonari, an organization fighting Austria's domination of northern Italy.

Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto claimed in the magazine's first issue that " the Digital Revolution is whipping through our lives like a Bengali typhoon ," yet despite the fact that Kelly was involved in launching the WELL, an early source of public access to the Internet and even earlier non-Internet online experience, Wireds first issue de-emphasized the Internet, and covered interactive games, cell-phone hacking, digital special effects, military simulations, and Japanese otaku.

Louis, closely involved in this aspect of government, personally decided who should be imprisoned at the Bastille.