A Spartan political figure, said to have founded the institutions of ancient Sparta, possibly around the ninth- or eighth-century B.C., though scholars are unable to conclusively determine whether he is a historical or purely legendary figure. Included in the laws he is credited with is a provision that newlyweds meet by night in the manner of secret lovers so as to preserve the husband from exhaustion due to excessive lovemaking.
The German theologian whose challenges to church practice formed the foundation of the Protestant Reformation.
English magistrate, member of the House of Commons, and squire. Lucy is most remembered for his conflicts with young William Shakespeare, the latter having been said to have poached deer from the property of the former. Lucy is thought to be the inspiration for the comically vain character of Justice Shallow from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2.
See Apuleius, Lucius.
Lucas authored a number of theological works, the most famous being An Enquiry after Happiness, the first volume of which appeared in 1685, and Practical Christianity (1677).
Character in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747-9).
Cavalier poet and Royalist soldier during the English Civil War. His most notable works include "To Althea, from Prison" and "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres."
Character in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747-9). A deceptively attractive but vicious seducer and rapist, Lovelace became a byword for a licentious and predatory aristocrat.
Louvet authored the licentious novel Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas (1786-91).
Born the Count of Provence, Louis XVIII, sometimes known as "the Desired," was the King of France from 1814-1824. Before his reign, he spent twenty-three years in exile during the French revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic empire, and was exiled again during the "Hundred Days" reign of Napoleon after his escape from prison on the island of Elba. While Louis XVIII's 1814 Charter established France as a constitutional monarchy and instituted progressive reform, he subsequently retracted or violated several key measures.
