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See also:ALEXANDRE See also:MILLERAND (1859– )
, See also:French socialist and politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:February 1859
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He was educated for the See also:bar, and made his reputation by his See also:defence, in See also:company with Georges See also:Laguerre, of Ernest Rcche and Duc-See also:Quercy, the instigators of the strike at See also:Decazeville in 1883; he then took Laguerre's See also:place on M
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See also:Clemenceau's See also:paper, La See also:Justice
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He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the See also:department of the See also:Seine in 1885 as a See also:radical socialist
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He was associated with MM
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Cleinenceau and Camille See also:Pelletan as an arbitrator in the Carmaux strike (1892)
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He had See also:long had the See also:ear of the Chamber in matters of social legislation, and after the See also:Panama scandals had discredited so many politicians his See also:influence See also:grew
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He was See also:chief of the Socialist See also:left, which then mustered sixty members, and edited until 1896 their See also:organ in the See also:press, La Petite Republique
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His See also:programme included the collective ownership of the means of See also:production and the See also:international association of labour, but when in See also:June 1899 he entered Waldeck-See also: He became in 1898 editor of La See also:Lantern . His influence with the extreme Socialists had already declined, for it was said that his departure from the true Marxist tradition had disintegrated the party . For his See also:administration in the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet see A . Lavy, L'tEuvre de See also:Millerand (1902); his speeches between 1899 and 1907 were published in 1907 as Travail et travailleurs . |
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