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JEAN MARIE ANTOINE DE LANESSAN (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 169 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:MARIE See also:ANTOINE DE See also:LANESSAN (1843– )  , See also:French statesman and naturalist, was See also:born at Sainte-See also:Andre de Cubzac (See also:Gironde) on the 13th of See also:July 1843 . He entered the See also:navy in 1862, serving on the See also:East See also:African and See also:Cochin-See also:China stations in the medical See also:department until the Franco-See also:German See also:War, when he resigned and volunteered for the See also:army medical service . He now completed his studies, taking his doctorate 19 . 1872 . Elected to the Municipal See also:Council of See also:Paris in 1879, he declared in favour of communal See also:autonomy and joined with See also:Henri See also:Rochefort in demanding the erection of a See also:monument to the Communards; but after his See also:election to the Chamber of Deputies for the 5th See also:arrondissement of Paris in 1881 he gradually veered from the extreme See also:Radical party to the Republican See also:Union, and identified himself with the cause of colonial expansion . A See also:government See also:mission to the French colonies in 1886–1887, in connexion with the approaching Paris See also:exhibition, gave him the opportunity of studying colonial questions, on which, after his return, he published three See also:works: La Tunisie (Paris, 1887); L'Expansion coloniale de la See also:France (ib., 1888), L'Indo-Chine frangaise (ib., 1889) . In 1891 he was made See also:civil and military See also:governor of French Indo-China, where his See also:administration, which involved him in open rupture with See also:Admiral See also:Fournier, was severely criticized . Nevertheless he consolidated French See also:influence in See also:Annam and See also:Cambodia, and secured a large See also:accession of territory on the See also:Mekong See also:river from the See also:kingdom of See also:Siam . He was recalled in 1894, and published an See also:apology for his administration (La Colonisation francaise en Indo-Chine) in the following See also:year . In the Waldeck-See also:Rousseau See also:cabinet of 1899 to 1902 he was See also:minister of marine, and in 1901 he secured the passage of a See also:naval See also:programme intended to raise the French navy during the next six years to a level befitting the See also:place of France among the See also:great See also:powers . At the See also:general election of 1906 he was not re-elected . He was See also:political director of the Siecle, and See also:president of the French Colonization Society, and wrote, besides the books already mentioned, various works on political and biological questions .

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