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La Tour, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
Population (2000): 65
Housing Units (2000): 28
Land area (2000): 0.111422 sq. miles (0.288582 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.111422 sq. miles (0.288582 sq. km)
FIPS code: 40880
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.633986 N, 94.102628 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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La Tour

La Tour or Latour may refer to:

La Tour (comics)

La Tour is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the third volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in serialized form in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#96-106), and as a complete volume first in 1987 by Casterman. In English, it was published as The Tower (Stories of the Fantastic) in 1993 by NBM Publishing.

La Tour (surname)

La Tour (as distinct from Latour) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (1593–1666), French Governor of Acadia
  • Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), French Baroque painter
  • House of La Tour d'Auvergne, French noble family
    • Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1636-1721)
    • Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668–1730)
    • Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (1679-1753), Count of Évreux, builder of Élysée Palace
    • Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne (1743–1800), French officer under Napoleon
  • LaTour, stage name of American artist William "Bud" LaTour
  • Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), French Rococo portraitist

Usage examples of "la tour".

It had been a favorite phrase of the Count Geoffrey de la Tour, six hundred years before.

On its first ascent, I took up in it a dozen persons besides myself, including the Princesse de la Tour d'Auvergne.

I was doing it circus-fashion, making it look as hard as possible, but that wouldn't do: I was to rock on the wire, and be very much at ease, and when I was half-way across the stage I was to thumb my nose at the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, my chief enemy.

Pendergast recognized it as very similar to-yet not a copy of-a series of paintings on the same subject, The Education of the Virgin by the mysterious French painter Georges de la Tour.

Georges de La Tour's Mary Magdalene has not yet arrived at an ecstasy of repentance, evidently.

Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne, who had married Piero's son Lorenzo, had died in childbirth.