See also:CHARLES CAMILLE See also:PELLETAN (1846– )
, See also:French politician and journalist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 28th of See also:June 1846, the son of See also:Eugene See also:Pelletan (1813–1884), a writer of eome distinction and a noted opponent of the Second See also:Empire
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Camille Pelletan was educated in Paris, passed as licentiate in See also:laws, and was qualified as an " archiviste paleographe." At the See also:age of twenty he became an active contributor to the See also:press, and a See also:bitter critic of the Imperial See also:Government
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After the See also:war of 1870–71 he took a leading See also:place among the most See also:radical See also:section of French politicians, as an opponent of the " opportunists " who continued the policy of See also:Gambetta
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In 188o he became editor of See also:Justice, and worked with success to bring about a revision of the sentences passed on the Communards
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In 1881 he was chosen member for the tenth See also:arrondissement of Paris, and in 1885 for the Bouches du See also:Rhone, being re-elected in 1889, 1893 and 1898; and he was repeatedly chosen as " reporter " to the various bureaus
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During the Nationalist and See also:Dreyfus agitations he fought vigorously on behalf of the Republican government and when the See also:coalition known as the "Bloc" was formed he took his place as aRadical See also:leader
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He was made See also:minister of marine in the See also:cabinet of M
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See also:Combes, June 1902 to See also:January 1905, but his See also:administration was severely criticized, notably by M. de See also:Lanessan and other See also:naval experts
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During the See also:great sailors' strike at See also:Marseilles in 1904 he showed pronounced sympathy with the socialistic aims and methods of the strikers, and a strong feeling was aroused that
his Radical sympathies tended to a serious weakening of the See also:navy and to destruction of discipline
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A somewhat violent controversy resulted, in the course of which M
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Pelletan's indiscreet speeches did him no See also:good; and he became a See also:common subject for See also:ill-natured caricatures
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On the fall of the Combes See also:ministry he became less prominent in French politics
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