BARDOUX  , AG)NOR (1829-1897),

French statesman, was a native of Bourges . Established as an advocate at Clermont, he did not hesitate to proclaim his republican sympathies . In 1871 he was elected deputy of the National Assembly, and re-elected in 1876 and in 1877 . In the chamber he was president of the group of the Ieft centre, standing strongly for the republic but against anti-clericalism . After the coup d'etat of the 16th of May, he was one of the leaders of the " 363." In the republican chamber elected after the 16th of May, he became minister of public instruction (December 1877), and proposed various republican laws, notably on compulsory primary education . He resigned in 1879 . He was not re-elected in 1881, but in December 1882 was named senator for life . He wrote essays on Les Legistes et leur influence sur la societe franQaise (1878); Le Comte de Montlosier et le Gallicanisme (1881); and published in 1882 his Dix Annees de vie polit2que .