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Marseilles Lycee. After marrying in 1859 he resigned his professorship, but remained at Marseilles, devoting himself to literature and politics. In 1869 See also:

INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information which he supplied to a legitimist newspaper at Marseilles with regard to the candidature of M. de See also:

LESSEPS, FERDINAND DE (1805-1894)

Lesseps as See also:

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

deputy for that See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city led to a demand for his See also:

EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

expulsion from See also:

France. He was, however, allowed to remain, but had to retire to the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. In 1870 his predictions of the approaching fall of the See also:

EMPIRE

Empire caused the demand for his expulsion to be renewed. While his See also:

case was under discussion the See also:

BATTLE

battle of See also:

SEDAN

Sedan was fought, and Blowitz effectually ingratiated himself with the authorities by applying for See also:

NATURALIZATION

naturalization as a French subject. Once naturalized, he returned to Marseilles, where he was fortunately able to render considerable service to See also:

THIERS

Thiers, who subsequently employed him in See also:

COLLECTING

collecting information at See also:

VERSAILLES

Versailles, and when this See also:

WORK

work was finished offered him the French consulship at See also:

RIGA (Esth. Ria-Lin)

Riga. Blowitz was on the point of accepting this See also:

POST

post when Laurence See also:

Oliphant, then Paris correspondent of The Times, for which Blowitz had already done some occasional work, asked him to See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act as his See also:

REGULAR

regular assistant for a See also:

time, See also:

Frederick Hardman, the other Paris correspondent of The Times, being absent. Blowitz accepted the offer, and when, later on, Oliphant was succeeded by Hardman he remained as assistant correspondent. In 1873 Hardman died, and Blowitz became See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief Paris correspondent to The Times.

In this capacity he soon became famous in the See also:

WORLD

world of journalism and See also:

DIPLOMACY (Fr. diplomatic)

diplomacy. In 1875 the duc de See also:

DECAZES, ELIE

Decazes, then French foreign minister, showed Blowitz a confidential despatch from the French See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador in See also:

Berlin (in which the latter warned his See also:

government that See also:

Germany was contemplating an attack on France), and requested the correspondent to expose the German designs in The Times. The publication of the facts effectually aroused See also:

EUROPEAN

European public See also:

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, and any such intention was immediately thwarted. Blowitz's most sensational journalistic feat was achieved in 1878, when his enterprise enabled The Times to publish the whole See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of the treaty of Berlin at the actual moment that the treaty was being signed in Germany. In 1877 and again in 1888 Blowitz rendered considerable service to the French government by his exposure of See also:

INTERNAL

internal designs upon the See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic. He died on the 18th of See also:

JANUARY

January 1903. My Memoirs, by H. S. de Blowitz, was, published in 1903.

End of Article: BLOWITZ, HENRI GEORGES STEPHAN ADOLPHE DE (1825-1903)

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