See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS See also:JOSEPH ERNEST See also:PICARD (1821-1877)
, See also:French politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 24th of See also:December 1821
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After taking his doctorate in See also:law in 1846 he joined the Parisian See also:bar
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Elected to the See also:corps legislatif in 1858, he joined the See also:group of Emile 011ivier
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But as 011ivier approximated to the See also:government standpoint, See also:Picard, one of the members of the group known as See also:Les Cinq, veered more to the See also:left
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He founded in 1868 a weekly Iemocratic See also:journal, L'Electeur libre, and in 1869 was elected both for See also:Herault and Paris, electing to sit for the former
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From the 4th of See also:September 187o he held the See also:portfolio of See also:finance in the government of See also:National See also:Defence
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In See also:January 1871 he accompanied Jules See also:Favre to See also:Versailles to arrange the See also:capitulation of Paris, and in the next See also:month he became See also:minister of the interior in See also:Thiers's See also:cabinet
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Attacked both by the Monarchist and the Republican See also:press, he resigned in May
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Later in the See also:year he was sent as See also:ambassador to See also:Brussels, where he remained for two years
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On his return to Paris he resumed his seat in the Left centre, and in 1875 became See also:life senator
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He died in Paris on the 13th of May 1877
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