François Michel Le Tellier Louvois, marquis de
François Michel Le Tellier Louvois, marquis de , 1641-91, French statesman, minister during the reign of King Louis XIV. After 1654 he was associated in office with his father, Michel Le Tellier , and from 1666 he functioned as war minister, officially replacing his father in 1677. His father shared in the reforms credited to Louvois. Among these reforms were the creation of an efficient provisioning system, the introduction of the bayonet and the flintlock rifle, the close coordination of the artillery and the corps of engineers with the infantry, the creation of grades to which officers might be promoted without purchasing their commissions, and the establishment of a fixed rate of pay. By these measures the French army became the most powerful military force in Europe. After the death of Jean Baptiste Colbert (1683), Louvois became the most influential of Louis's ministers. He supported the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (see Nantes, Edict of ) and was largely responsible for the brutal enforcement of that measure. Louvois also was instrumental in the shaping of Louis's aggressive policies. The devastation of the Palatinate (1689) by the French army under his orders during the War of the Grand Alliance earned him condemnation throughout Europe.
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Third release of Patrologia Latina Database now available. (Chadwyck Healey Inc.'s database on Jacques-Paul Migne's compilation of nineteenth-century ecclesiastical Latin texts) (Product Announcement)
Magazine article from: Information Today; 7/1/1994; 645 words
; ...ROMs. The Patrologia Latina consists of 221 volumes of 19th-century ecclesiastical Latin texts compiles by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1865. It contains the works of 1000 authors spanning then centuries. The third release offers...
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R. Howard Bloch, God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne (U of Chicago P, 1994), 152...and Irregular Commerce of the Abbe Migne by asking how a nineteenth-century priest, the abbe Jacques-Paul Migne, was able to publish over one thousand...
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Patrologia Latina DB: 200 to 1200 AD on CD. (Column)
Magazine article from: Information Today; 3/1/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...reference collections? Certainly not Jacques-Paul Migne, the priest himself. An ecclesiastical...s eye, all the texts that Migne included related in some way...that I did not even know who Jacques-Paul Migne was, let alone how the Latin...
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Obituary: Dom Eligius Dekkers
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/18/1999; ; 665 words
; ...Belgium, was a reworking of the first such edition, the Bibliotheque universelle du clerge edited by Father Jacques-Paul Migne in the 19th century, but adhering to modern, scholarly norms. As the work expanded and new series were created...
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Jacques Paul Migne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jacques Paul Migne , 1800-1875, French publisher of theological works, a Roman Catholic priest (ordained 1824). He set up a printing press...
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Migne, Jacques-Paul
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Migne, Jacques-Paul (1800–75), editor and publisher of theological literature. He published a vast collection of religious texts and...
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patristic literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...monumental collection of the Fathers (to Innocent III in the West and to the fall of Constantinople in the East) by Jacques Paul Migne ; the Greek texts are accompanied by Latin translations. There are several collections of the Fathers in English...
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