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European Pressphoto Agency Patients with cholera at the courtyard of the overcrowded L'Hopital St. Nicholas in St. Marc, Haiti, the center of the cholera epidemic.
Health Officials Expect Cholera to Spread in Haitian Capital Betsy McKay 2010
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L'Hopital and take sharp measures with the Huguenots.
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The tolerant language of L'Hopital at the States General of Orleans in
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Cardinal Chatillon escaped to England; Jeanne of Navarre and her young son Henri took refuge at La Rochelle; L'Hopital was dismissed the Court.
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A bronze lamp, of a gothic shape, struggling with the coming day, threw its red light upon a mass of papers and books which covered a large table; it lighted the bust of L'Hopital, that of Montaigne the essayist, the President de Thou, and of King Louis XIII.
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These last, guided still by L'Hopital, once more convoked the States
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L'Hopital; for the most striking feature of the time is the sudden outbreak of tolerant opinion.
Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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The Chancellor L'Hopital had, in vain, urged toleration.
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Montmorencys; playing off one party against the other, but chiefly inclining to the Guises, who gradually obtained such an ascendency that the Chancellor L'Hopital, in despair, retired from the council; and thus removed the greatest obstacle to the schemes and ambition of the Cardinal of Lorraine.
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A just and independent sentence has been pronounced -- a sentence worthy of the ancient renown of that magistracy to which belong the noblest recollections of French history -- which, in an age of persecutors, produced L'Hopital, -- which, in an age of courtiers, produced D'Aguesseau, -- which, in an age of wickedness and madness, exhibited to mankind a pattern of every virtue in the life and in the death of Malesherbes.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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