BARTHELEMY

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BARTHELEMY SAINT-HILAIRE, JULES (1805-1895), French philosopher and statesman, was born at Paris on the 19th of August 1805. In his early years he was an active political journalist, and from 1826 to 183o opposed the reactionary policy of the king in Le Globe. At the revolution of 183o he signed the protestation of the journalists on the 28th of July 1830. After 1830. he contributed to different newspapersLe Constitutionnel, Le National and the Courrier frangaisuntil 1833, when he gave up politics in order to devote himself to the history of ancient philosophy, undertaking a

translation

TRANSLATION

of Aristotle, which occupied him the greater part of his life (1837-1892). The reputation which he gained from this

work

WORK

won for him the chair of ancient philosophy at the College de France (1838) and a seat at the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of Moral and Political Science (1839). After the revolution of 1848 he was elected as a republican

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

; but was obliged to withdraw after the coup d'etat of Louis

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

. In 1855 he went as member of the international commission to

Egypt

EGYPT

to report on the possibility of the proposed

Suez

SUEZ

canal, and by the articles which he wrote he contributed largely to making the project popular in France. Elected

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

again in 1869, he joined the opposition to the Empire, and in 1871 bent all his efforts to the election of

Thiers

THIERS

as president of the republic, acting afterwards as his secretary. Appointed senator for life in 1875, he took his place among the moderate republicans, and from September 188o to November 1881 was minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Jules Ferry. The most important event of his administration was the annexation of Tunis under the form of a French protectorate, which he actively promoted. He died on the 24th of November 1895. His

principal

PRINCIPAL

works, besides the

translation

TRANSLATION

of Aristotle and a number of studies connected with the same subject, are Des Vedas (1854), Du Bouddhisme (1856) and Mahomet et le Coran (1865).

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