Gibbon always calls the French kings Lewis
Eww-ww-ww...that is both arrogant and disrespectful. GRR. How would he like to be called Ape, I wonder??

OH MY GOSH, I had just been thinking that it sounded like he had bowdlerized the name. Then I went to x-refer to find Gibbon's first name, and look:
Bowdler Dr Thomas 1754 1825
...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family'. He also published (posthumously) Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, for the use of Families and Young...