Anselme Laugel

Marie Anselme Victor Henri Laugel (3 April 1851,

Alsatian

author and politician.

Biography

His father, François Joseph Victor Laugel (1817-1885), a locksmith, served on the Strasbourg City Council, as did his grandfather, François Antoine Laugel (1779-1848), who was also a locksmith.

Alsace-Lorraine" in Lyon, during the Franco-Prussian War

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After the

French Senate. In 1891, he returned home and became Chairman of the Agricultural Council in the district of Kreis Molsheim [de], then founding President of the Wine Growers' Association of Alsace. In 1896 he was elected to the District Parliament [fr] (Bezirkstag), representing Oberelsaß (Upper Alsace). From 1890 to 1911, he was a member of the Regional Committee of the Landtag d'Alsace-Lorraine [fr]. In 1897, he married Marie Hervé (1861-1948), daughter of the district tax collector. They had no children.^[1]

In addition to his political activities, he was a devoted amateur artist. In 1898, together with his friend, the Alsatian patriot, Pierre Bucher [fr], and the artist, Charles Spindler, he became involved in publishing a magazine, the Revue Alsacienne illustrée [fr], which was issued until 1914. He provided numerous articles on the arts and culture of Alsace, and wrote several books on the subject. He and Spindler also created the "Cercle de Saint-Léonard [fr]", an artists' association, whose members included Léon Hornecker, Alfred Marzolff, Joseph Sattler, Léo Schnug, Lothar von Seebach and Gustave Stoskopf.