DESCHANEL, PAUL EUGENE LOUIS (1856 )

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DESCHANEL, PAUL EUGENE LOUIS (1856 ) , French statesman, son of Emile Deschanel (18191904), professor at the College de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

(18511859), owing to his opposition to

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

III. Paul Deschanel studied law, and began his career as secretary to Deshayes de Marcere (1876), and to Jules Simon (18761877). In October 1885 he was 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
- PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouµvov, plum)
)

for Eure and Loire. From the first he took an important place in the chamber, as one of the most notable orators of the Progressist Republican group. In January 1896 he was elected vice-president of the chamber, and henceforth devoted himself to the struggle against the Left, not only in

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

, but also in public meetings throughout France. His addresses at

Marseilles

MARSEILLES

on the 26th of October 1896, at Carmaux on the 27th of December 1896, and at Roubaix on the loth of

April

APRIL

1897, were triumphs of clear and eloquent exposition of the political and social aims of the Progressist party. In June 1898 he was elected president of the chamber, and was re-elected in 1901, but rejected in 1902. Nevertheless he came forward brilliantly in 1904 and 1905 as a supporter of the law on the separation of

church

and state. He was elected a member of the French

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

in 1899, his most notable works being Orateurs et hommes d'etat (1888), Figures de femmes (1889), La Decentralization (1895), La Question sociale
(1898).

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