Louis
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Louis can refer to:
- The name Louis
- Styles of architecture
- Louis Treize - 1883- Designating the style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which characterized the period of Louis XIII (1610-1643), marked by Renaissance forms, rich inlaid ornaments, geometric panels and deep molding, and carving in the Flemish style.
- Louis Quatorze - 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.
- Fabric
- Louisine - a silken fabric commemorates some manufacture or dress-designer Lous or some dedicate Louise
- Places
- Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, Canada, also Louibourg
- Louisiade Archipelago, Papaun Island, New Guinea
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Louisburn, North Carolina
- Luivain, Belgium
- the State of Louisiana
- several cities called Lewiston
- several cities called Lewes
- several cities called Ludlow
- Ludlow Creek, Ohio, named for Israel Ludlow, an early surveyor
- Clovis, New Mexico
- Clovis, California, names for Clovis Cole, a local rancher
- Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
- Duke Louis VI the Roman of Bavaria
- King Louis I of Bavaria
- King Louis II of Bavaria
- Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie
- Prince Louis II de Condé
- King Louis the Pious of France
- King Louis the Stammerer of France
- King Louis III of France
- King Louis IV of France
- King Louis V of France
- King Louis VI of France
- King Louis VII of France
- King Louis VIII of France
- King Louis IX of France
- King Louis X of France
- King Louis XI of France
- King Louis XII of France
- King Louis XIII of France
- King Louis XIV of France
- King Louis XV of France
- King Louis XVI of France
- King Louis XVII of France
- King Louis XVIII of France
- King Louis the German of Germany
- King Louis the Child of Germany
- King Louis I of Hungary
- King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
- Prince Louis II of Monaco
- King Louis of Portugal
- Prince Louis de Rohan
- Emperor Louis II of the Romans
- Emperor Louis IV of the Romans
- Duke Louis of Savoy
- King Louis of Spain
- Louis Armstrong
- Great sage Louis Noreau
- Louis Braille - Inventor of braille, reading for the blind
- Louis Cartier - Cartier jewelry
- Louis Chevrolet - Car manufacture
- Louis Jordan
- Louis Pasteur - invented pasteurization via his The Germ Theory
- Louis Rukeyser
- Louis Gerstner - Former Chairman and CEO of IBM corporation
- Louis Sachar
- Louis Vuitton
- Louis Wirth
- Meriwether Lewis - Pioneer and explorer of the Oregon trails
- Carl Lewis – 1984, 1988, 1992 Olympic champion
- Jerry Lee Lewis - musician
- Ljubiša Stojanović Louis a Serbian jazz-folk singer
- Louis, a Korean pop singer
- Morris Louis, painter
- Pierre Louÿs (born Pierre Louis)
- Stéphane Louis, Engineer
- Louis Palovits, Engineer
- Louis dressing is a salad dressing
- Louis de Pointe du Lac is a fictional character in the Vampire novels of Anne Rice.
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