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See also:COMTE See also:JOSEPH See also:JEROME See also:SIMEON (1749–1842)
, See also:French jurist and politician, was See also:born at See also:Aix on the 3oth of See also:September 1749
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His See also:father, See also:Joseph Sextius See also:Simeon (1717-1788), had been See also:professor of See also:law and royal secretary for the See also:parlement of See also:Provence
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Simeon followed his father's profession, but he was outlawed for his See also:share in the federalist See also:movement in 1793, and only returned to See also:France after the revolution of See also:Thermidor
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In the See also:council of the Five See also:Hundred, of which he was now a member, he took the conservative See also:side
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In 1799, for protesting against the invasion of the chamber by P
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See also:Augereau, he was imprisoned until the 18th See also:Brumaire (9th See also:November)
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In the Tribunate he had an important share in the preparation of the See also:Civil See also:Code, being rewarded by a seat in the council of See also:state
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In 1807 he was one of the commissioners sent to organize the new See also:kingdom of See also:Westphalia, and was premier of See also:
He served the Restoration as councillor of state and in the chamber of peers
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In 1820 he was under-secretary of state for See also:justice, and in the next See also:year See also:minister of the interior until the fall of the See also:Richelieu See also:ministry
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A See also:baron of the See also:Empire
become the permanent headquarters of many of the See also:official establishments
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During the See also:season See also:Simla is the See also:focus of See also:Indian society; and viceregal and other balls, and entertainments of every description, are frequent
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Simla is the headquarters of a volunteer See also:rifle See also:corps, and there are numerous See also:libraries and institutes, of which the See also:chief is the See also:United Service Institution, with a See also:subsidy from See also:government
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The two chief medical institutions are the See also:Ripon and See also:
They descend in a See also:gradual See also:series from the See also:main chain to the See also:general level of the See also:Punjab See also:plain, forming a transverse S.W. See also:spur between the great basins of the See also:Ganges and the See also:Indus
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S. and E. of Simla the hills between the See also:Sutlej and the Tons centre in the great See also:peak of Chor, 11,982 ft. above See also:sea-level
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Throughout all the hills forests of deodar abound, while rhododendrons clothe the slopes up to the limit of perpetual See also:snow
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The See also:principal See also:rivers are the Sutlej, Pabar, Giri, Gambhar and Sarsa
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The acquisition of the patches of territory forming the district See also:dates from various times subsequent to the See also:close of the See also:Gurkha See also:War in 1816, which See also:left the See also:British in See also:possession of the whole See also:tract of See also: |
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