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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REMSCHEID  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine Province, situated on an elevated plateau, iroo ft. above sea-level, 6 m. by
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rail S. of
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Barmen and 20 M . N.E. of Cologne . Pop . (1905) 64,340 . Remscheid is a centre of the hardware industry, and large quantities of tools, scythes, skates and other small articles in iron, steel and brass are made for export. to all parts of
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Europe, the East, and North and South
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America . The name of Remscheid occurs in a document of 1132, and the town received the first impulse to its
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industrial importance through the immigration of
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Protestant refugees from France and Holland . R$MUSAT, CHARLES FRANCOIS
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MARIE, COMTE DE (1797-1875), French politician and man of letters, was born in Paris on the 13th of March 1797 . His
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father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Remusat, of a good
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family of Toulouse, was chamber-lain to
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Napoleon, but acquiesced in the restoration and became prefect first of Haute Garonne, and then of
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Nord . His
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mother's maiden name was Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, born in 1780 . She married at sixteen, and was attached to Josephine as dame du palais in 1802 . Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally recognized as a woman of
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great intellectual capacity and
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personal grace . After her
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death (1824) an Essai sur l'
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education
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des femmes was published and received an
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academic couronne .

But it was not until her

grandson Paul de Remusat published her Memoires (3 vols., Paris, 2879-80), which have since been followed by some correspondence with her son (2 vols., 2881), that justice could be ' done to her
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literary talent . Much
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light was thrown on the
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Napoleonic court by this
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book, and on the youth and education of her son Charles . He early
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developed
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political views wore liberal than those of his parents, and, being bred to the bar, published in 182o a pamphlet on trial by
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jury . He was an active journalist, showing in philosophy and literature the influence of Cousin, and is said to have furnished to no small extent the
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original of Balzac's brilliant egoist
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Henri de Marsay . He signed the journalists' protest against the Ordinances of
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July 1830, and in the following
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October was elected deputy for Haute Garonne . He then ranked himself with the
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doctrinaires, and supported most of those
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measures of restriction on popular liberty which made the July monarchy unpopular with French Radicals . In 1836 he became for a short time under-secretary of state for the interior . He then became an ally of
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Thiers, and in 1840 held the
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ministry of the interior for a brief period . In the same
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year he became an Academician . For the rest of Louis Philippe's reign he was in opposition till he joined Thiers in his attempt at a ministry in the spring of 1848 . During this time Remusat constantly spoke in the chamber, but was still more active in literature, especially on philosophical subjects, the most remarkable of his
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works being his book on Abelard (2 vols., 1845) . In 1848 he was elected, and in 1849 re-elected, for Haute Garonne, and voted with the Conservative side .

He had to leave France after the coup d'etat; nor did he re-enter political

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life during the Second
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Empire until 2868, when he founded a moderate opposition journal at . Toulouse . In 2871 he refused the Vienna
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embassy offered him by Thiers, but in August he was appointed minister of
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foreign affairs in succession to M . Jules Favre . Although minister he was not a deputy, and on
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standing for Paris in September 1873 he was beaten by
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Desire Barodet . A month later he was elected (having already resigned with Thiers) for Haute Garonne by a great majority . He died in Paris on the 6th of
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January 1875 . During his abstention from politics Remusat continued to write on philosophical
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history, especially
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English . Saint Anselme de Cantorbery appeared in 1854; L'Angleterre au XVIIIbme sitcle in 1856 (2nd ed. enlarged, 1865); Bacon, sa
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vie, son temps, &'c., in 1858; Charming, sa vie et ses oeuvres, in 1862; John Wesley in 1870; Lord Herbert de Cherbury in 1874; Histoire de la philosophie en Angleterre depuis Bacon jusqu' d Locke in 1875; besides other and minor works . He wrote well, was a forcible
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speaker and an acute critic; but his adoption of the indeterminate eclecticism of Cousin in philosophy and of the somewhat similarly indeterminate liberalism of Thiers in politics probably limited his powers, though both no doubt accorded with his critical and unenthusiastic turn of mind . His son PAUL DE REMUSAT (1831—1897) became a distinguished journalist and writer . He was for many years a
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regular contributor to the Revue des deux mondes .

He stood for

election in Haute-Garonne in 1869 in opposition to the imperial policy and failed, but was elected to the
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National Assembly in 1871 and later . In 1890 he entered the Academie des sciences morales et politiques .

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