ANTONIN PROUST (1832–1905)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V22,
Page 490
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
ANTONIN See also:PROUST (1832–1905)
, See also:French journalist and politician, was See also:born at See also:Niort on the 15th of See also:March 1832
.
He founded in 1864 an See also:anti-imperial See also:journal, La Semaine hebdomadaire which appeared at See also:Brussels
.
He was See also:war correspondent to Le Temps in the See also:early days of the Franco-See also:German War, but after See also:Sedan he returned to See also:Paris, where he became secretary to See also:Gambetta and superintended the refugees in Paris
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He entered the Chamber as See also:deputy for his native See also:town in 1876, taking his seat on the See also:left
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In Gambetta's See also:cabinet (188r–1882) he was See also:minister of the See also:fine arts, and in the Chamber of Deputies he was regularly commissioned to draw up the See also:budget for the fine arts, after the See also:separate See also:department had ceased to exist
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Prosecuted in connexion with the See also:Panama scandals, he was acquitted in 1893
.
From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he lived in the closest retirement
.
On the loth of March 1905 he shot himself in the See also:head, dying of the See also:wound two days later
.
End of Article: ANTONIN PROUST (1832–1905)
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