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ESQUIROS, See also:HENRI See also:FRANCOIS See also:ALPHONSE (1812-1876) , See also:French writer, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 23rd of May 1812. After some See also:minor publications he produced L'Evangile du peuple (1840), an exposition of the See also:life and See also:character of Jesus as a social reformer. This See also:work was considered an offence against See also:religion and decency, and Esquiros was fined and imprisoned. He was elected in 185o as a social democrat to the Legislative See also:Assembly, but was exiled in 1851 for his opposition to the See also:Empire. Returning to See also:France in 1869 he was again a member of the Legislative Assembly, and in 1876 was elected to the See also:senate. He died at See also:Versailles on the 12th of May 1876. He turned to See also:account his See also:residence in See also:England in L'Angleterre et la See also:vie anglaise (5 vols., 1859-1869). Among his numerous See also:works on social subjects may be noted :—Histoire See also:des Montagnards (2 vols., 1847) ; Paris, ou See also:les sciences, les institutions et les mceurs au XIX, siecle (2 vols., 1847); and Histoire des martyrs de la liberte (1851).

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