LEMIRE, JULES AUGUSTE (1853 )

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LEMIRE, JULES AUGUSTE (1853 ) ,

French

priest and social reformer, was born at Vieux-Berquin (Nord) on the 23rd of

April

APRIL

18J3. He was educated at the college of St Francis of Assisi, Hazebrouck, where he subsequently taught philosophy and

rhetoric

RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

. In 1897 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 Hazebrouck and was returned unopposed at the elections of 1898, 1902 and 1906. He organized a society called La Ligue du coin de terre et du foyer, the

object

OBJECT

of which was to secure, at the expense of the state, a piece of

land

LAND

for every

French

family desirous of possessing one. The abbe Lemire sat in the chamber of deputies as a conservative republican and Christian Socialist. He protested in 1893 against the action of the

Dupuy

DUPUY, CHARLES ALEXANDRE (1851– )
DUPUY, PIERRE (1582-1651)

cabinet in closing the

Bourse

BOURSE (from the Med. Lat. bursa, a purse)

du Travail, characterizing it as the expression of " a policy of disdain of the workers." In December 1893 he was seriously injured by the bomb thrown by the anarchist Vaillant from the gallery of the chamber.

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