Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour
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Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour | |
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| Born | 19 May 1827 |
| Died | 26 October 1896 (aged 69) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | statesman |
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Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour (19 May 1827 – 26 October 1896) was a French statesman.
Biography
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour was born in
Federal Polytechnic Institute Zurich, today the ETH Zurich
. The amnesty of 1859 enabled him to return to France, but a projected course of lectures on history and art was immediately suppressed. He now supported himself by his pen, and became a regular contributor to the reviews.
On the fall of the
Senate. He sat at first on the Extreme Left
; but his philosophic and critical temperament was not in harmony with extreme French radicalism, and his attitude towards political questions underwent a steady modification, till the close of his life saw him the foremost representative of moderate republicanism.
During
minister of foreign affairs in the Jules Ferry
cabinet, but retired in November of the same year.
In 1890 he was elected vice-president of the Senate, and in 1893 succeeded Jules Ferry as its
Paris
.
Works
He published a translation of
Madame d'Epinay
(1869).
In 1897 appeared Joseph Reinach's edition of the Œuvres oratoires de Challemel-Lacour.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Challemel-Lacour, Paul Amand". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 807.
External links
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