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Louis, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Louis, Saint: see Louis IX, king of France.

Philip Augustus

(Encyclopedia) Philip Augustus: see Philip II, king of France.

Alsace-Lorraine

(Encyclopedia) Alsace-Lorraine, former region, Germany: see under Alsace, France.

Code Napoléon

(Encyclopedia) Code NapoléonCode Napoléonkôd näpôlāôNˈ [key] or Code CivilCode Napoléonsēvēlˈ [key], first modern legal code of France, promulgated by Napoleon I in 1804. The work of J. J. Cambacérès…

Edward VIII

(Encyclopedia) Edward VIII, 1894–1972, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1936), known in later years as the duke of Windsor; eldest son of George V. He attended the naval colleges at Osborne and…

Philip the Fair

(Encyclopedia) Philip the Fair: see Philip IV, king of France.

Philip the Tall

(Encyclopedia) Philip the Tall: see Philip V, king of France.