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Lauderdale, John. 1616-82. Scottish statesman. Cabal Ministry. Repressive rule of Scotland.
Laudon, Gideon. 1717-90. Estonian/Austrian Hapsburg field marshal in Seven Years War.
Ledoux, Claude Nicolas. 1736-1806. French Neoclassical architect. Tollhouses.
Le Jeune, Claude. c1527-1600. French composer of musique mésurée.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1908-. Belgian/French ethnologist. Theory of Symbolic Structures: Mythologiques 1964-8.
Lorraine, Claude. 1600-82. French landscape painter, master of sunlight. Sunset 1644.
Manet, Édouard. 1832-83. French Pre-Impressionist painter. Olympia 1863. Déjeuner sur l’herbe 1863, triggered Impressionism. Folies-Bergères 1882. Monet.
Monet, Claude. 1840-1926. Originator of Impressionist open-air painting direct from nature. Impression Sunrise 1872. Nymphéas 1906-26.
Monteverdi, Claudio. 1567-1643. Italian composer. First opera: Orfeo 1607. L’Arianna 1608. Madrigals 1583.
Observatory, Paris. 1667-72. Claude Perrault. Dimensions of the solar system 1672, meridians of longitude. Sets Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Octavia. 42-62. Claudius’ daughter, Nero’s wife. Executed by Nero.
Perrault, Claude. 1613-88. French architect. Louvre Colonnade. Observatory.
Shannon, Claude. 1916-2001. US information theorist. Mathematical Theory of Communication 1948.
Tencin, Claudine de. 1682-1749. French writer. Influential patron.
Valentine, St. c270. 2 Christians martyred by Claudius II. Modern celebration derives from Roman Lupercalia fertility festival.