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ALFRED JOSEPH NAQUET (1834– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 236 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALFRED See also:JOSEPH See also:NAQUET (1834– )  , See also:French chemist and politician, was See also:born at See also:Carpentras (See also:Vaucluse), on the 6th of See also:October 1834 . He became See also:professor in the See also:faculty of See also:medicine in See also:Paris in 1863, and in the sane See also:year professor of See also:chemistry at See also:Palermo, where he delivered his lectures in See also:Italian . He lost his professorship in 1867 with his civic rights, when he was condemned to fifteen months' imprisonment for his See also:share in a See also:secret society . On a new See also:prosecution in 1869 for his See also:book See also:Religion, propriety, See also:famine he took See also:refuge in See also:Spain . Returning to See also:France under the See also:government of Emile 011ivier he took an active share in the revolution of the 4th of See also:September 1870, and became secretary of the See also:commission of See also:national See also:defence . In the National See also:Assembly he sat on the extreme See also:Left, consistently opposing the opportunist , policy of successive governments . Re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies he began the agitation against the See also:marriage See also:laws with which his name is especiallyconnected . His proposal for the re-See also:establishment of See also:divorce was discussed in May 1879, and again in 1881 and 1882, and became See also:law two years later . See also:Naquet, although he disapproved in principle of a second chamber, secured his See also:election to the See also:senate in 1883 to See also:pilot his measure through that See also:body . In 1886 by his efforts divorce became legal after three years of definite separation on the demand of one of the parties concerned . In 1890 he resigned from the senate to re-enter the Chamber of Deputies, this See also:time for the 5th See also:arrondissement of Paris, and took his seat with the Boulangist deputies . After See also:Boulanger's See also:suicide his See also:political See also:influence declined, and was further compromised by accusations (of which he was legally cleared) in connexion with the See also:Panama scandals .

The thesis written for his doctorate, Application de l'analyse chimique d la toxicologie (1839), was followed by many papers on chemistry contributed to learned See also:

journals, and his Principes de chimie fondes sur See also:les theories modernes (1865) reached its 5th edition in 189o . He is better known by his political See also:works, Socialisme collectiviste et socialisme liberal (189o, Eng. trans., 1891), L'Humanite et la patrie (1901), Loa du divorce (1903), L'Anarchie et le collectivisme (1904), Desarmement ou See also:alliance anglaise (1908) .

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