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LOUIS THE GERMAN 



ing was a reproduction of the New Orleans 

 Cabildo, where the transfer of the Louisiana 

 territory took place. Before the exhibition was 

 opened to the public more than $20,000,000 had 

 been spent. Total attendance was 21,000,000. 



Consult Hitchcock's The Louisiana Purchase 

 and Exploration; Hosmer's History of the Louisi- 

 ana Purchase. 



LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND 

 AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COL- 

 LEGE, a state school whose history begins with 

 government land grants made early in the nine- 

 teenth century. The university is the out- 

 growth of the Louisiana State Seminary and 

 Military Academy, which was founded in 1853 

 near Alexandria, and opened in 1860 under the 

 presidency of William T. Sherman, a prominent 

 officer in the Union Army during the War of 

 Secession. In 1869 the seminary was removed 

 to Baton Rouge, where, in 1870, it became the 

 Louisiana State University. In 1873 the Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College at New Orleans 

 was founded. In 1877 this school and the older 

 one at Baton Rouge were merged into one in- 

 stitution, which was chartered under the pres- 

 ent name. The university is organized into col- 

 leges of arts and sciences, agriculture and engi- 

 neering, the teachers' college, the law school, 

 Audubon Sugar School and a graduate depart- 

 ment. At New Orleans, Crowley, Calhoun and 

 Baton Rouge are agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions connected with the univerpity. Tuition is 

 free except to students of foreign countries, who 

 pay a fee of $100. Many such students attend 

 the university for the experimental courses of- 

 fered in the Audubon Sugar School. The library 

 contains over 37,000 volumes. There are ninety- 

 eight instructors and student assistants, forty- 

 two, officers and experiment station and exten- 

 sion workers not included in the faculty, and 

 over 1,650 students. 



The Audubon Sugar School is the only school 

 of its kind in the United States, and is believed 

 to be unsurpassed in the world for training 

 sugar chemists, sugar engineers and factory 

 superintendents. The law school devotes more 

 attention than usual to the civil law upon which 

 is based the jurisprudence of Louisiana and the 

 Latin-American countries. The university has 

 for some years engaged extensively in activities 

 outside of its walls, on the theory that a state 

 university should, to some extent at least, serve 

 all the people of the state instead of confining 

 its efforts to those only who can attend its 

 classes. For instance, the college of agriculture 

 was one of the pioneers in organizing clubs of 



various kinds among the rural population; and 

 the department of junior agricultural extension 

 was the first to plan, construct and operate a 

 combination of the automobile and the moving 

 picture machine, by which moving pictures and 

 lantern slides illustrating the work of the de- 

 partment have been exhibited in the most re- 

 mote country districts T.D.B. 



LOUIS PHILIPPE, looe' feleep' (1773- 

 1850), king of the French, called THE CITIZEN 

 KING, was born in the Palais Royal, Paris, and 

 was the eldest son of Philippe Egalite, duke of 

 Orleans. Favoring democratic principles at the 

 outbreak of the French Revolution, he entered 

 the national guard, rose to^the rank of lieuten- 

 ant-general and took part in the battles of 

 Valmy, Jemappes and Neerwinden. He then 

 became involved in the conspiracy of his chief, 

 Dumouriez, against the republic, and was ar- 

 rested, but escaped to Switzerland. In 1814 he 

 returned to France and recovered nis vast es- 

 tates, which had been seized by the Imperial 

 government. When the Revolution of 1830 

 ended with the -abdication of Charles X, Louis 

 Philippe was made lieutenant-general of the 

 kingdom, and a week later was appointed to 

 the vacant throne. During the eighteen years 

 of his reign he was universally unpopular and 

 in the Revolution of 1848 was forced to abdi- 

 cate. He fled to Normandy and then to Eng- 

 land, where he spent the few remaining years 

 of his life. 



LOUIS THE GERMAN (about 805-876), king 

 of the Eastern Franks from 843 to 876, whose 

 share of the empire of his father, Louis the 

 Pious, formed the nucleus of modern Germany. 

 Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne (which 

 see), had inherited the great empire of his 

 father. Upon the death of Louis, in 840, a fierce 

 dispute broke out among his three sons, Louis, 

 Charles the Bald, and Lothair, each of whom 

 was a claimant for the domains of his father. 

 In 843, by the Treaty of Verdun, the empire 

 was divided into three parts, Louis the German 

 receiving the portion east of the Rhine (see 

 VERDUN, TREATY OF). He thus became ruler of 

 the German, or East Frankish, kingdom. Dur- 

 ing much of his reign he was engaged in warfare, 

 as he was forced to defend his realm against 

 the invasions of the 'Slavs and the Northmen, 

 and to crush the revolts of his sons. In 870 he 

 forced his brother, Charles the Bald, to sign the 

 Treaty of Mersen, whereby the territories of 

 Lothair were divided between the West and 

 East Frankish kingdoms. His reign was much 

 troubled by revolts of his sons. 





