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PAUL EUGENE LOUIS DESCHANEL (1856– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL See also:EUGENE See also:LOUIS See also:DESCHANEL (1856– )  , See also:French statesman, son of Emile See also:Deschanel (1819–1904), See also:professor at the See also:College de See also:France and senator, was See also:born at See also:Brussels, where his See also:father was living in See also:exile (1851–1859), owing to his opposition to See also:Napoleon III . See also:Paul Deschanel studied See also:law, and began his career as secretary to See also:Deshayes de Marcere (1876), and to Jules See also:Simon (1876–1877) . In See also:October 1885 he was elected See also:deputy for See also:Eure and See also:Loire . From the first he took an important See also:place in the chamber, as one of the most notable orators of the Progressist Republican See also:group . In See also:January 1896 he was elected See also:vice-See also:president of the chamber, and henceforth devoted himself to the struggle against the See also:Left, not only in See also:parliament, but also in public meetings throughout France . His addresses at See also:Marseilles on the 26th of October 1896, at Carmaux on the 27th of See also:December 1896, and at See also:Roubaix on the loth of See also:April 1897, were triumphs of clear and eloquent exposition of the See also:political and social aims of the Progressist party . In See also:June 1898 he was elected president of the chamber, and was re-elected in 1901, but rejected in 1902 . Nevertheless he came forward brilliantly in 1904 and 1905 as a supporter of the law on the separation of See also:church and See also:state . He was elected a member of the French See also:Academy in 1899, his most notable See also:works being Orateurs et hommes d'etat (1888), Figures de femmes (1889), La Decentralization (1895), La Question sociale (1898) .

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