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

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journals, and his Principes de chimie fondes sur
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les theories modernes (1865) reached its 5th edition in 189o . He is better known by his political
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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
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alliance anglaise (1908) .

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