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REMSCHEID
, a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:Province, situated on an elevated See also:plateau, iroo ft. above See also:sea-level, 6 m. by See also:rail S. of See also:Barmen and 20 M
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N.E. of See also:Cologne
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Pop
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(1905) 64,340
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Remscheid is a centre of the hardware See also:industry, and large quantities of tools, scythes, skates and other small articles in See also:iron, See also:steel and See also:brass are made for export. to all parts of See also:Europe, the See also:East, and See also:North and See also:South See also:America
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The name of Remscheid occurs in a document of 1132, and the town received the first impulse to its See also:industrial importance through the See also:immigration of See also:Protestant refugees from See also:France and See also:
But it was not until her See also:grandson See also:Paul de Remusat published her Memoires (3 vols., Paris, 2879-80), which have since been followed by some See also:correspondence with her son (2 vols., 2881), that See also:justice could be ' done to her See also:literary See also:talent
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Much See also:light was thrown on the See also:Napoleonic See also:court by this See also:book, and on the youth and education of her son Charles
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He See also:early See also:developed See also:political views wore liberal than those of his parents, and, being bred to the See also:bar, published in 182o a pamphlet on trial by See also:jury
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He was an active journalist, showing in See also:philosophy and literature the See also:influence of See also:Cousin, and is said to have furnished to no small extent the See also:original of See also:Balzac's brilliant egoist See also:Henri de Marsay
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He signed the journalists' protest against the Ordinances of See also:July 1830, and in the following See also:October was elected See also:deputy for Haute Garonne
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He then ranked himself with the See also:doctrinaires, and supported most of those See also:measures of restriction on popular See also:liberty which made the July See also:monarchy unpopular with French Radicals
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In 1836 he became for a See also:short See also:time under-secretary of See also:state for the interior
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He then became an ally of See also:Thiers, and in 1840 held the See also:ministry of the interior for a brief See also:period
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In the same See also:year he became an Academician
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For the See also:rest of See also:
He had to leave France after the coup d'etat; nor did he re-enter political See also:life during the Second See also:Empire until 2868, when he founded a moderate opposition See also:journal at
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Toulouse
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In 2871 he refused the See also:Vienna See also:embassy offered him by Thiers, but in See also:August he was appointed See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs in See also:succession to M
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Jules See also:Favre
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Although minister he was not a deputy, and on See also:standing for Paris in See also:September 1873 he was beaten by See also:Desire Barodet
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A See also:month later he was elected (having already resigned with Thiers) for Haute Garonne by a great See also:majority
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He died in Paris on the 6th of See also:January 1875
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During his abstention from politics Remusat continued to write on philosophical See also:history, especially See also:English
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See also:Saint See also:Anselme de Cantorbery appeared in 1854; L'Angleterre au XVIIIbme sitcle in 1856 (2nd ed. enlarged, 1865); See also: He stood for See also:election in Haute-Garonne in 1869 in opposition to the imperial policy and failed, but was elected to the See also:National See also:Assembly in 1871 and later . In 1890 he entered the Academie des sciences morales et politiques . |
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