What is "ludovic"

Ludovic is a given name, and may refer to:

• Ludovic (opera), by Fromental Halévy
• The main character in Ma vie en rose, a Belgian film

or to the first name of the following:

In sports:

• Ludovic Assemoassa, French-born Togolese football defender who currently plays for Ciudad de Murcia
• Ludovic Badey, French race car driver
• Ludovic Butelle, French football goalkeeper
• Ludovic Giuly, French footballer who plays as a winger
• Ludovic Magnin, Swiss football defender
• Ludovic Mercier, French rugby union footballer
• Ludovic Obraniak, French-born Polish international footballer
• Ludovic Roux, former French Nordic combined skier
• Ludovic Turpin, professional road racing cyclist

In literature:

• Ludovic Dauș, Romanian author
• Ludovic Halévy, French author
• Ludovic Kennedy (1919-2009), British journalist, broadcaster, and author

In politics:

• Ludovic Orban, Romanian politician
• Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, Scottish nobleman and politician
• Ludovic Vitet, French dramatist and politician

In other fields:

• Ludovic Arrachart, French aviator
• Ludovic Lindsay, 16th Earl of Crawford, prisoner at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1644 and 1645
• Ludovic Zamenhof, eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto
• Ludovic (bear), the title character in four short films and a television series by Co Hoedeman

Ludovic is a two act opéra comique to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. The music, by Ferdinand Hérold, was left unfinished at his death, and the work was completed by Fromental Halévy.

The plot, elements of which were later reworked by Halévy and Saint-Georges in Le val d'Andorre (1847), centres on misplaced alliance, love, forced conscription, flight, pardon and marriage.

Chopin wrote a set of variations (opus 12, 1833) on the Act I aria "Je vends des Scapulaires" from Ludovic.