LANESSAN, JEAN MARIE ANTOINE DE (1843 )

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LANESSAN, JEAN MARIE ANTOINE DE (1843 ) , French statesman and naturalist, was born at Sainte-Andre de Cubzac (Gironde) on the 13th of July 1843. He entered the navy in 1862, serving on the

East

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EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

African

AFRICAN

and Cochin-China stations in the medical department until the Franco-German War, when he resigned and volunteered for the army medical service. He now completed his studies, taking his doctorate 19. 1872. Elected to the Municipal Council of Paris in 1879, he declared in favour of communal autonomy and joined with Henri Rochefort in demanding the erection of a

monument

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to the Communards; but after his election to the Chamber of Deputies for the 5th arrondissement of Paris in 1881 he gradually veered from the extreme Radical party to the Republican

Union

, and identified himself with the cause of colonial expansion. A government mission to the French colonies in 18861887, in connexion with the approaching Paris exhibition, gave him the opportunity of studying colonial questions, on which, after his return, he published three works: La Tunisie (Paris, 1887); L'Expansion coloniale de la France (ib., 1888), L'Indo-Chine frangaise (ib., 1889). In 1891 he was made civil and military

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of French Indo-China, where his administration, which involved him in open rupture with

Admiral

ADMIRAL

Fournier, was severely criticized. Nevertheless he consolidated French influence in Annam and

Cambodia

CAMBODIA

, and secured a large accession of territory on the Mekong river from the kingdom of Siam. He was recalled in 1894, and published an apology for his administration (La Colonisation francaise en Indo-Chine) in the following year. In the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet of 1899 to 1902 he was minister of marine, and in 1901 he secured the passage of a naval programme intended to raise the French navy during the next six years to a level befitting the place of France among the

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GREAT

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POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

. At the general election of 1906 he was not re-elected. He was political director of the Siecle, and president of the French Colonization Society, and wrote, besides the books already mentioned, various works on political and biological questions.

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