Comparison between Esperanto and Ido Ido was satisfied with it. Many former Idists, such as Otto Jespersen (who created Novial) left the movement, bleeding Ido of leaders. Of all synthetic auxiliary languages, only Esperanto and Interlingua-IL de ApI gained a sizeable following and textual corpus to this day. Esperanto is based on the "Fundamento de Esperanto" by L. L. Zamenhof; whereas the grammar of Ido is explained in the "Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di la Linguo Internaciona Ido". Since Esperanto has proved to be a living, stable language, nowadays Esperantists are less quick to reject influences from Ido. Probably the most fundamental of these is that
Ludwik Marteau Ludwik Marteau Ludwik Marteau, originally Louis-François Marteau (c.1715, Paris - 2 November 1804, Warsaw) was a French-born Polish court painter who served under kings Augustus III and Stanisław August Poniatowski. All of his known works are portraits; both full size and miniatures. His father was a carpenter at the royal Palace of Versailles. One of his aunts on his mother's side was married to the Polish court painter, Louis de Silvestre. It is not known exactly when he arrived in Poland, but it appears that his teacher, Maurice Quentin de La Tour made the recommendation to go and Silvestre arranged