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DEROULEDE, PAUL (1846— )

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DEROULEDE, See also:PAUL (1846— ) , See also:French author and politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 2nd of See also:September 1846. He made his first See also:appearance as a poet in the pages of the Revue nationale, under the See also:pseudonym of See also:Jean See also:Rebel, and in 1869 produced at the See also:Theatre Frangais a one-See also:act See also:drama in See also:verse entitled Juan Strenner. On the outbreak of the Franco-See also:German See also:War he enlisted as a private, was wounded and taken prisoner at See also:Sedan, and sent to See also:Breslau, but effected his See also:escape. He then served under See also:Chanzy and See also:Bourbaki, took See also:part in the latter's disastrous See also:retreat to See also:Switzerland, and fought against the See also:Commune in Paris. After attaining the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant, he was forced by an See also:accident to retire from the See also:army. He published in 187 2 a number of patriotic poems (Chants du soldat), which enjoyed unbounded popularity. This was followed in 1875 by another collection, Nouveaux Chants du soldat. In 1877 he produced a drama in verse called L'See also:Hetman, which derived a passing success from the patriotic fervour of its sentiments. For the See also:exhibition of 1878 he wrote a hymn, Vive la See also:France, which was set to See also:music by See also:Gounod. In 188o his drama in verse, La Moabite, which had been accepted by the Theatre Frangais, was forbidden by the See also:censor on religious grounds. In 1882 M. Deroulede founded the gigue See also:des patriotes, with the See also:object of furthering France's " revanche " against See also:Germany.

He was one of the first See also:

advocates of a Franco-See also:Russian See also:alliance, and as See also:early as 1883 undertook a See also:journey to See also:Russia for the furtherance of that object. On the rise of See also:General See also:Boulanger, M. Deroulede attempted to use the Ligue des patriotes, hitherto a non-See also:political organization, to assist his cause, but was deserted by a See also:great part of the See also:league and forced to resign his See also:presidency. Nevertheless he used the See also:section that remained faithful to him with such effect that the See also:government found it necessary in 1889 to See also:decree its suppression. In the same See also:year he was elected to the chamber as member for See also:Angouleme. He was expelled from the chamber in 1890 for his disorderly interruptions during debate. He did not stand at the elections of 1803, but was re-elected in 189S, and distinguished himself by his violence as a nationalist and See also:anti-Dreyfusard. After the funeral of See also:President See also:Faure, on the 23rd of See also:February 1899, he endeavoured to persuade General Roget to See also:lead his troops upon the Elysee. For this he was arrested, but on being tried for See also:treason was acquitted (May 31). On the 12th of See also:August he was again arrested and accused, together with See also:Andre See also:Buffet, Jules See also:Guerin and others, of See also:conspiracy against the See also:republic. After a See also:long trial before the high See also:court, he was sentenced, on the 4th of See also:January 1900, to ten years' banishment from France, and retired to See also:San See also:Sebastian. In 1901, he was again brought prominently before the public by a See also:quarrel with his Royalist See also:allies, which resulted in an abortive See also:attempt to arrange a See also:duel with M.

Buffet in Switzerland. In See also:

November 1905, however, the See also:law of See also:amnesty enabled him to return to France. Besides the See also:works already mentioned, he published Le Sergent, in the Theatre de campagne (188o); De l'See also:education nationale (1882); See also:Monsieur le Uhlan et See also:les trois couleurs (1884) ; Le Premier See also:grenadier de France; La Tour d' A uvergne (1886) ; Le Livre de la ligue des patriotes (1887); Refrains militaires (1888) ; Histoire d'anzour (189o); a pamphlet entitled Desarmement? (189x); Chants du paysan (1894); Poesies Militaires (1896) and Messire du Guesclin, drame en vers (1895); La mort de See also:Hoche. Cinq actes en See also:prose (1897); La Plus belle ftlle du monde, conic See also:dialogue en vers libres (1898).

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