Louis the Twelfth, cause of his death, ii. 34.
Louis the Fourteenth, chose his courtiers by the rules of physiognomy, i. 148; some remarks on his real character, ii, 449; passages suppressed in his instruction to the Dauphin, 450.
Louis L’Abé, the Aspasia of Lyons, i. 362; wrote the morality of “Love and Folly,” ib.
Loups-garoux, iii. [293].
Lucullus, description of the library of, i. 3.
Luke, Sir Samuel, the true prototype of Hudibras, ii. 491, and note.
Lunsford, Colonel, imputed a cannibal, iii. [149], note.
Luther, Martin, remarks on, and extracts from, his controversial writings, i. 308, 309; caricatures on, 309, note; Jansenist character of, 374; anecdote of, from Guicciardini, ii. 479, 480; his political conduct, iii. [144].
Luynes, Duc de, his origin, ii. 11.
Luxury, in dress, an old dramatist’s opinion on, iii. [400]; doctrines of political economy concerning, [401]; excessive amongst our ancestors, ib.; the Pas de Sandricourt, [402]-405; ruinous in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., [405].