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  • In 1856 he started using his pseudonym ‘Lewis Carroll’ an anglicised form of his given name: ‘Lewis’ being an anglicised form of ‘Ludovicus’ and Latin for Lutwidge; and ‘Carroll’ anglicised from ‘Carolus’, Latin for Charles.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Toby O'B 2009

  • The obverse shows a figure holding a crucifix and the lilies of France, with the motto “ me donavit Ludovicus Decimus Tertius, 1627; Louis XIII gave me, 1627.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The obverse shows a figure holding a crucifix and the lilies of France, with the motto “ me donavit Ludovicus Decimus Tertius, 1627; Louis XIII gave me, 1627.”

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • And the like was done by that league (which Guicciardini saith was the security of Italy) made between Ferdinando King of Naples, Lorenzius Medici, and Ludovicus

    The Essays 2007

  • For our body is like a clock, if one wheel be amiss, all the rest are disordered; the whole fabric suffers: with such admirable art and harmony is a man composed, such excellent proportion, as Ludovicus Vives in his Fable of Man hath elegantly declared.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ludovicus Pius, the son of Charles the Great, according to good computes; or whether it might not be used by some persons, while for an hundred and eighty years Paganism and Christianity were promiscuously embraced among them, there is no assured conclusion.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • François Delaborde (Paris, 1882), 1: 111 — 12: "Sequenti mense, x kalendas augusti, Ludovicus filius Philippi regis cepit egrotare morbo gravissimo qui a physicis dissinteria vocatur."

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • There is only time to take a hasty glance as we pass: it commemorates some of the wonderful feats of arms of Ludovicus

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • But a king is not every inch a king, for all the poet may say; and it is curious to see how much precise majesty there is in that majestic figure of Ludovicus Rex.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • “For your crown, my master, Ludovicus Quintus Decimus, rex Franciae et Navarrae,” said the regent, in that mocking way of his.

    THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

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