NAQUET, ALFRED JOSEPH (1834 )

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NAQUET, ALFRED JOSEPH (1834 ) , French chemist and politician, was born at Carpentras (Vaucluse), on the 6th of October 1834. He became professor in the faculty of

medicine

MEDICINE

in Paris in 1863, and in the sane year professor of chemistry at Palermo, where he delivered his lectures in Italian. He lost his professorship in 1867 with his civic rights, when he was condemned to fifteen months' imprisonment for his share in a

secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

society. On a new prosecution in 1869 for his book Religion, propriety,

famine

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

he took

refuge

REFUGE

in Spain. Returning to France under the government of Emile 011ivier he took an active share in the revolution of the 4th of September 1870, and became secretary of the commission of national defence. In the National Assembly he sat on the extreme Left, consistently opposing the opportunist , policy of successive governments. Re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies he began the agitation against the

marriage

MARRIAGE

laws

LAWS

with which his name is especiallyconnected. His proposal for the re-

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

of divorce was discussed in May 1879, and again in 1881 and 1882, and became law two years later. Naquet, although he disapproved in principle of a second chamber, secured his election to the senate in 1883 to pilot his measure through that

body

BODY

. In 1886 by his efforts divorce became legal after three years of definite separation on the demand of one of the parties concerned. In 1890 he resigned from the senate to re-enter the Chamber of Deputies, this time for the 5th arrondissement of Paris, and took his seat with the Boulangist deputies. After

Boulanger

BOULANGER
BOULANGER, GEORGE ERNEST JEAN MARIE (1837-1891)

's suicide his political influence declined, and was further compromised by accusations (of which he was legally cleared) in connexion with the Panama scandals.
The thesis written for his doctorate, Application de l'analyse chimique d la toxicologie (1839), was followed by many papers on chemistry contributed to learned journals, and his Principes de chimie fondes sur les theories modernes (1865) reached its 5th edition in 189o. He is better known by his political works, Socialisme collectiviste et socialisme liberal (189o, Eng. trans., 1891), L'Humanite et la patrie (1901), Loa du divorce (1903), L'Anarchie et le collectivisme (1904), Desarmement ou alliance anglaise (1908).

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