Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, GE, was a French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist. He was born in Paris at the Hôtel Selvois, 6 rue Taranne. The family's ducal peerage (duché-pairie), granted in 1635 to his father Claude de Rouvroy (1608–1693), served as both perspective and theme in Saint-Simon's life and writings. He was the second and last Duke of Saint-Simon.
Louis de Sacy was a French author, and lawyer. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1701. De Sacy was particularly known for his elegant translations of Pliny the Younger's Epistulae and Panegyricus Traiani.
Louis de Wohl was a German-born Catholic author, and had served as an astrologer notable for his work with MI5 from England during World War II. Sixteen of his popular pre-war novels were the basis of movies. His later novels are literary hagiographies of notable Roman Catholic saints and of different periods of the Bible.
Louis Dudek, was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books. In A Digital History of Canadian Poetry, writer Heather Prycz said that "As a critic, teacher and theoretician, Dudek influenced the teaching of Canadian poetry in most [Canadian] schools and universities".
Louis Dyer (1851–1908) was an American educator and author born in Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. He graduated at Harvard University in 1874, and at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1878. He was assistant professor of Greek at Harvard (1881–1887), lecturer at Lowell Institute (1889) and at Balliol College, Oxford (1893–1896), and acting professor of Greek at Cornell University (1895–96). Dyer lectured before the Royal Institution in 1896 and in 1900 gave a series of lectures at the University of California which was repeated at many colleges and universities. He published a translation of Luigi Cossa's Introduction to the Study of Political Economy (1893).
Louis E. Boone was an American academic author. His works covered contemporary business and economics, and included university-level texts Contemporary Marketing and Contemporary Business. His last residence was in Mobile, Alabama where he was the emeritus professor of business at the University of South Alabama. He owned the most extensive collection of Barbizon art in the United States, which is now part of the collection of the Mobile Museum of Art.
