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In the Middle Ages this was the hereditary Given Name of French Nobles who claimed descent from Clovis (another version of the same name), the first king of the Franks . One such family were the Bourbons , who provided kings of France from 1589 to 1789 . In English speaking countries the anglicized version '' Lewis '' is sometimes used. Feminine - Louise French form of Louis. Variant Forms ''Dutch'' - Lodewijk ''English'' - Lewis English Variant spelling - Lewes , Lewie, or Lew ''Hawaiian'' - Lui ''French'' - Louis - Definition - War famous and/or famed warrior French Feminine - Louisa , Eloise , Heloise , Lisette , Luise French Variant spelling Louys Luic - Little Louis. Loual - A name invented by combining Louis and Albert. Lowe - A variant form of the German name Loeb. From the German, meaning “a lion.” Common as a Yiddish form. Jews use it as a middle name with Judah -Hebrew meaning “praise” (Judah Loeb) because of the reference in the Bible, comparing Judah to a lion. Loewy - A variant form of Loeb Lourent - A variant form of Loanda, or Luanda name invented by combining Lou Clovis - From the Anglo-Saxon and German, meaning “a clover,” a leguminous plant. French Feminine Variant Spelling Louvenia - A name invented by combining the masculine Louis and a form of Lavinia. Louella or Luella - meaning origin uncertain Loudella - A hybrid name crated by combining Lou (Louise) with Ella or Della. ''German'' - Ludwig - From the Old German name Hluodowig, derived from the Germanic hiuda, meaning “famous,” and wiga, meaning “war”: Akin to Louis. German Variant spelling - Ludlow, Ludek, Lewisohn Lewin ''Italian'' - Luigi, Lodovico Italian Feminine - Luisa, Luigia, Eloisa ''Portuguese'' Luiz and also Luis Portuguese Feminine - Luiza ''Spanish'' - Luis /Loo-EES/ Spanish Feminine - Luisa ''Swedish'' Feminine - Lova ''Welsh'' - Llewelyn or Llewellyn Definition - In the likeness of a lion. ACHITERCTURE Louis Quantorze - 1848 -Designating the style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XIV in France (1643-1715), marked by baroque architectural forms and ornate and grandiose decorative treatment employing animal and mythological forms richly carved. Louis Quinze - 1855 -Designating the style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XV (1715-74), marked by the culmination of the rococo as expressed in flowing lines, rounded forms, and gracefully shell, flower, and other ornaments. Louis Seize - 1882 Designating the style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XVI (1774-1793): a reaction against the Louis Quinze period, marked by simple, rectilinear forms, using symmetrical Greco-Roman wreaths, birds, etc., as ornaments, or Greek egg-and-anchor or leaf motifs, achieving a plain internal decoration. Louis Treize - 1883- Designating the style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XIII (1610-1 643), marked by Renaissance forms, rich inlaid ornaments, geometric panels and deep molding, and carving in the Flemish style. COIN The ''Louis'' is short for Louisd'or was also a Gold Coin issued by the kings of France . A French gold rein worth twenty francs used through the reigns of Louis XIII (1665) Louis XVI, also Louisd’or - after Louis XIII. First coined in 1640, it weight was 102.273 grains. In 1717 its legal value in England was fixed at 175. In the Bourbon reigns following the Restoration, the name was transferred to the 20 Franc piece or Napoleons. See Louis (coin) for more detail. FABRIC Louisine - a silken fabric commemorates some manufacture or dress-designer Lous or some dedicate Louise PLACE-NAME USAGE Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, Canada, also Louibourg Louisiade Archipelago, Papaun Island, New Guinea Louisville, Kentucky Louisburn, North Carolina Luivain, Belgium the State of Louisiana Lewiston, Maine Lewes, Delaware Ludlow, Massachusetts Ludlow Creek, Ohio, names of Israel Ludlow, an early surveyor Clovis, New Mexico Clovis, California, names for Clovis Cole, a local rancher Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada A number of famous people in history were named Louis:
Louis Braille - Inventor of brail, reading for the blind Louis Cartier - Cartier jewelry Louis Chevrolet - Car manufacture Louis and Clark - Pioneer and explorer of the Oregon trails
Carl Lewis – 1984, 1988, 1992 Olympic champion Jerry Lee Lewis - musician
OTHER Ljubiša Stojanović Louis is a Serbia n Jazz-folk singer. Louis is also the name of a Korean pop singer, see Louis (artist) . Louis is also the name of a Salad Dressing , see Louis Dressing . Louis is also the name of a fictional character in the Vampire novels of Anne Rice . See Louis De Pointe Du Lac . LASTNAME
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