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See also:LOCK See also:ROY
, $DOUARD (1838– ), See also:French politician, son of See also:Joseph Philippe See also:Simon (1803–1891), an actor and dramatist who took the name of Lockroy, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 18th of See also:July 1838
.
He had begun by studying See also:art, but in 186o en-listed as a volunteer under See also:Garibaldi
.
The next three years were spent in See also:Syria as secretary to Ernest See also:Renan, and on his return to Paris he embarked in militant journalism against the second See also:empire in the See also:Figaro, the Diable a quatre, and eventually in the Rappel, with which his name was thenceforward intimately connected
.
He commanded a See also:battalion during the See also:siege of Paris, and in See also:February 1871 was elected See also:deputy to the See also:National See also:Assembly where he sat on the extreme See also:left and protested against the preliminaries of See also:peace
.
In See also:
In 1885 he had been returned at the See also:head of the See also:poll for Paris, and his inclusion in the Freycinet ministry was taken to indicate a prospect of reconciliation between Parisian Radicalism and See also:official Republicanism
.
During his See also:tenure of the portfolio of commerce and industry he made the preliminary arrangements for the Exposition of 1889, and in a witty See also:letter
he defended the erection of the Tour Eiffel against See also:artistic Paris
.
After the See also:Panama and Boulangist scandals he became one of the leading politicians of the Radical party
.
He was See also:vice-See also:president of the Chamber in 1894 and in 1895, when he became See also:minister of marine under See also:Leon See also:Bourgeois
.
His drastic See also:measures of reform alarmed moderate politicians, but he had the confidence of the See also:country, and held the same portfolio under See also:Henri Brisson (1898) and See also: |
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