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

1881; 3rd ed . 1907); La See also:

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

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