JULES

FRANCOIS

See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

ALEXANDRE

See also:

• JULES FRANCOIS ALEXANDRE JOFFRIN (1846–189o)

JOFFRIN (1846–189o)  , French politician, was born at Troyes on the 16th of March 1846 . He served in the Franco-German War, was involved in the Commune, and spent eleven years in England as a political exile . He attached himself to the " possibilist " group of the socialist party, the section opposed to the root-and-branch measures of Jules Guesde . He became a member of the municipal council of Paris in 1882, and vice-president in 1888–1889 . Violently attacked by the Boulangist organs, L'Intransigeant and La France, he won a suit against them for libel, and in 1889 he con-tested the 18th arrondissement of Paris with General Boulanger, who obtained a majority of over 2000 votes, but was declared ineligible . Joffrin was only admitted to the Chamber after a heated discussion, and continued to be attacked by the nationalists . He died in Paris on the 17th of September 189o . current popular corruption of shimo'n = Ishmael . In Ezek. xxxviii . 15 it is distinctly said that Gog is to come from the recesses of Siphon . Meshech " and " Tubal " are no hindrance to this view, if the names of the so-called " sons of Japheth " are critically examined . For they, too, as well as Siphon, can be plausibly shown to represent regions of North Arabia .

See

Cheyne,Traditions,and Beliefs of Anc . Israel, on Gen. x . 2-4 .