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GUSTAVE EMIL EUGENE MESUREUR (1847— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUGENE See also:MESUREUR (1847— )  , See also:French politician, was See also:born at Marcq-en-Baroeul (See also:Nord) on the 2nd of See also:April 1847 . He worked as a designer in See also:Paris, and became prominent as a member of the municipal See also:council of Paris; rousing much angry discussion by a proposal to rename the Parisian streets which See also:bore See also:saints' names . In 1887 he became See also:president of the council . The same See also:year he entered the Chamber of Deputies, taking his See also:place with the extreme See also:left . He joined the L . See also:Bourgeois See also:ministry of 1895—1896 as See also:minister of See also:commerce, See also:industry, See also:post and telegraphs, was See also:vice-president of the Chamber from 1898 to 1902, and presided over the See also:Budget See also:Commission of 1899, 1901 and 1902 . He was defeated at the polls in, 2902, but became director of the Assistance Ppblique . His wife, Amelie de See also:Wailly (b . 1853), is well known as a writer of See also:light See also:verse and of some charming See also:children's books .

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