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GUSTAVE See also:FLOURENS (1838-1871)
, See also:French revolutionist and writer, a son of J
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See also:Flourens (1794-1867), the physiologist, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 4th of See also:August 1838
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In 1863 he under-took for his See also:father a course of lectures at the See also:College de See also:France, the subject of which was the See also:history of mankind
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His theories as to the manifold origin of the human See also:race, however, gave offence to the See also:clergy, and he was precluded from delivering a second course
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He then went to See also:Brussels, where he published his lectures under the See also:title of Histoire de l'homme (1863); he next visited See also:Constantinople and See also:Athens, took See also:part in the Cretan insurrection of 1866, spent some See also:time in See also:Italy, where an See also:article of his in the Popolo d'Italia caused his See also:arrest and imprisonment, and finally, having returned to France, nearly lost his See also:life in a See also:duel with See also:Paul de See also:Cassagnac, editor of the Pays
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In Paris he devoted his See also:pen to the cause of republicanism, and at length, having failed in an See also:attempt to organize a revolution at See also:Belleville on the 7th of See also:February 187o, found himself compelled to flee from France
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Returning to Paris on the downfall of See also:Napoleon, he soon placed himself at the See also:head of a See also:body of 500 tirailleurs
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On See also:account of his insurrectionary proceedings he was taken prisoner at Creteil, near See also:Vincennes, by the provisional See also:government, and confined at Mazas on the 7th of See also:December 187o, but was released by his men on the See also:night of See also:January 21-22
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On the 18th of See also: Besides his See also:Science de l'homme (Paris, 1869), Gustave Flourens was the author of numerous fugitive See also:pamphlets . See C . Proles, See also:Les Hommes de la revolution de 1871 (Paris, 1898) . |
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