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YVES GUYOT (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 747 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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YVES

GUYOT (1843– )  , French politician and economist, was born at
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Dinan on the 6th of September 1843 . Educated at
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Rennes, he took up the profession of journalism, coming to Paris in 1867 . He was for a short period editor-in-chief of L'Independant du midi of Nimes, but joined the staff of La Rappel on its foundation, and worked subsequently on other
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journals . He took an active
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part in municipal
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life, and waged a keen
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campaign against the prefecture of police, for which he suffered six months' imprisonment . He entered the chamber of deputies in 1885 as representative of the first arrondissement of Paris and • was rapporteur general of the budget of 1888 . He became minister of public
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works under the premiership of P . E . Tirard in 1889, retaining his portfolio in the
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cabinet of C . L. de Freycinet until 1892 . Although of strong liberal views, he lost his seat in the election of 1893 owing to his militant attitude against
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socialism . An uncompromising
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free-trader, he published La Comedic protectionniste (1905; Eng. trans . The
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Comedy of
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Protection); La Science economique (1st ed .

1881; 3rd ed . 1907); La

Prostitution (1882); La Tyrannie socialiste (1893), all three translated into
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English;
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Les Conflits du travail et leur solution (1903); La Democratic individualiste (1907) .

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