See also:ARTHUR See also:RANC (1831–1908)
, See also:French politician and writer, was See also:born at See also:Poitiers on the loth of See also:December 1831, and was educated for the See also:law
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Implicated in a See also:plot against See also:Napoleon III. in 1853, he was acquitted, but shortly afterwards was imprisoned for belonging to a See also:secret society; for his See also:share in See also:anti-imperialist conspiracies in 1855 he was arrested and deported to See also:Algeria without a trial
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The See also:amnesty of 18J9 permitted him to return to See also:Paris, where he soon See also:drew the See also:attention of the See also:police to his presence by his violent articles
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During the See also:siege of Paris he See also:left the See also:city in a See also:balloon and joined See also:Gambetta, for whom he organized a See also:system of spies through which See also:General See also:Trochu was kept informed of the strength and disposition of the Prussians around Paris
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He was elected to the See also:National See also:Assembly in See also:February 1871, but resigned rather than subscribe to the See also:peace
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He had been elected See also:mayor of the ninth See also:arrondissement of Paris in the autumn of 187o, and in See also:March was sent by the same See also:district to the See also:Commune, from which he resigned when he found no reconciliation was possible between the mayors and the Commune
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In See also:July he became a member of the municipal See also:council of Paris, and in 1873 was returned to the National Assembly for the See also:department of the See also:Rhone, and took his See also:place on the extreme Left
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A See also:month after his See also:election the See also:governor of Paris demanded his See also:prosecution for his share in the Commune
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The claim being granted by a large See also:majority, he
escaped to See also:Belgium, where he issued a pamphlet defending his See also:action during the Commune
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On his failure to appear before the See also:court he was condemned to See also:death, and remained in Belgium until 1879, when he was included in the amnesty proclaimed by See also:Grevy
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During his See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile he continued his active collaboration bn La Republique francaise
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In 1873 he fought a See also:duel with See also:Paul de See also:Cassagnac, and he acted as second to See also:Clemenceau more than once
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He energetically defended the See also:republic against the Boulangist agitation, and took an equally courageous See also:part in the See also:Dreyfus affair
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In the Picquart-See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry duel he was second to See also:Colonel Picquart
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He succeeded Clemenceau as editor of the Aurore, in which See also:Zola's See also:letter " J'accuse " had appeared, and was See also:president of the Association of Republican Journalists
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In 1903 he became senator for See also:Corsica, and died on the loth of See also:August 1908
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In addition to his purely See also:political writings, See also:Arthur See also:Ranc published political novels of the Second See also:Empire, Sous l'empire (1872) and Le See also:roman dune conspiration (1868)
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