AUGUSTE See also:LAURENT See also:BURDEAU (1851–1894)
, See also:French politician, was the son of a labourer at See also:Lyons
.
Forced from childhood to See also:earn his own living, he was enabled to secure an See also:education by bursarships at the Lycee at Lyons and at the Lycee See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Le See also:Grand in See also:Paris
.
In 187o he was at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, but enlisted in the See also:army, and was wounded and made prisoner in 1871
.
In 1874 he became See also:professor of See also:philosophy, and translated several See also:works of See also:Herbert See also:Spencer and of See also:Schopenhauer into French
.
His extraordinary aptitude for See also:work secured for him the position of chef de See also:cabinet under See also:Paul See also:Bert, the See also:minister of education, in 1881
.
In 1885 he was elected See also:deputy for the See also:department of the See also:Rhone, and distinguished himself in See also:financial questions
.
He was several times minister, and became minister of See also:finance in the cabinet of Casimir-See also:Perier (from the 3rd of See also:November 1893 to the 22nd of May 1894)
.
On the 5th of See also:July 1894 he was elected See also:president of the chamber of deputies
.
He died on the 12th of See also:December 1894, worn out with overwork
.
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