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LEONARD See also:JOSEPH [L1;oN] See also:FAUCHER (1803-1854) , See also:French politician and economist, was See also:born at See also:Limoges on the 8th of See also:September 1803 . When he was nine years old the See also:family removed to See also:Toulouse, where the boy was sent to school . His parents were separated in 1816, and See also:Leon See also:Faucher, who resisted his See also:father's attempts to put him to a See also:trade, helped to support himself and his See also:mother during the See also:rest of his school career by designing See also:embroidery and See also:needlework . As a private See also:tutor in See also:Paris he continued his studies in the direction of See also:archaeology and See also:history, but with the revolution of 1830 he was See also:drawn into active See also:political journalism on the Liberal See also:side . He was on the See also:staff of the Temps from 183o to 1833, when he became editor of the Constitutionnel for a See also:short See also:time . A See also:Sunday See also:journal of his own, Le Bien public, proved a disastrous See also:financial failure; and his political See also:independence having caused his retirement from the Constitutionnel, he joined in 1834 the Courrier frangais, In 1174 a See also:conspiracy for the restoration of the See also:dynasty was organized by •Umarah of See also:Yemen, a See also:court poet, with the aid of eight officials of the See also:government: it was discovered and those who were implicated were executed . Two persons claiming Fatimite descent took the royal titles al-Mo`tasim billah and al-I;Iamid lillah in the years 1175 and 1176 respectively; and as See also:late as 1192 we hear of pretenders in See also:Egypt . Some members of the family are traceable till near the end of the 7th See also:century of See also:Islam . The doctrines of the See also:Fatimites as a See also:sect, apart from their claim to the See also:sovereignty in Islam, are little known, and we are not justified in identifying them with those of the Assassins, the Carrnathians or the See also:Druses, though all these sects are connected with them in origin . A famous See also:account is given by See also:Maqrizi of a See also:system of See also:education by which the See also:neophyte had doubts gently instilled into his mind till he was prepared to have the allegorical meaning of the See also:Koran set before him, and to substitute some See also:form of natural for revealed See also:religion . In most accounts of the See also:early days of the community it is stated that the permission of See also:wine-drinking and licentiousness, and the community of wives and See also:property formed See also:part of its tenets . There is little in the recorded practice of the Fatimite See also:state to confirm or justify these assertions; and they appear to have differed from orthodox Moslems rather in small details of See also:ritual and See also:law than in deep matters of See also:doctrine .
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