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See also:FAVRE, JULES See also:CLAUDE See also:GABRIEL (1809-1880) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Lyons on the 21st of See also:March 1809, and began his career as an See also:advocate. From the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the revolution of 183o he openly declared himself a republican, and in See also:political trials he seized the opportunity to See also:express his opinions. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected See also:deputy for Lyons to the Constituent See also:Assembly, where he sat among the moderate republicans, voting against the socialists. When See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Napoleon was elected See also:President of See also:France, Favre made himself conspicuous by his opposition, and on the 2nd of See also:December 1851 he tried with See also:Victor See also:Hugo and others to organize an armed resistance in the streets of See also:Paris. After the coup d'etat he withdrew from politics, resumed his profession, and distinguished himself by his See also:defence of Felice See also:Orsini, the perpetrator of the attack against the See also:life of Napoleon III. In 1858 he was elected deputy for Paris, and was one of the " Five " who gave the See also:signal for the republican opposition to the See also:Empire. In 1863 he became the See also:head of his party, and delivered a number of addresses denouncing the Mexican expedition and the occupation of See also:Rome. These addresses, eloquent, clear and incisive, won him a seat in the French See also:Academy in 1867. With See also:Thiers he opposed the See also:declaration of See also:war against See also:Prussia in 1870, and at the See also:news of the defeat of Napoleon III. at See also:Sedan he demanded from the Legislative Assembly the deposition of the See also:emperor. In the See also:government of See also:National Defence he became See also:vice-president under See also:General See also:Trochu, and See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs, with the onerous task of negotiating See also:peace with victorious See also:Germany. He proved to be less adroit as a diplomat than he had been as an orator, and committed several irreparable blunders. His famous statement on the 6th of See also:September 187o that he " would not yield to Germany an See also:inch of territory nor a single See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone of the fortresses " was a piece of See also:oratory which See also:Bismarck met on the 19th by his declaration to Favre that the cession of See also:Alsace and of See also:Lorraine was the indispensable See also:condition of peace. He also made the See also:mistake of not having an assembly elected which would have more See also:regular See also:powers than the government of National Defence, and of opposing the removal of the government from Paris during the See also:siege. In the peace negotiations he allowed Bismarck to get the better of him, and arranged for the See also:armistice of the 28th of See also:June 1871 without knowing, the situation of the armies, and without consulting the government at See also:Bordeaux. By a See also:grave oversight he neglected to inform See also:Gambetta that the See also:army of the See also:East (8o,000 men) was not included in the armistice, and it was thus obliged to See also:retreat to neutral territory. He gave no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof what-ever of See also:diplomatic skill in the negotiations for the treaty of See also:Frank-fort, and it was Bismarck who imposed all the conditions. He withdrew from the See also:ministry, discredited, on the 2nd of See also:August 1871, but remained in the chamber of deputies. Elected senator on the 3oth of See also:January 1876, he continued to support the government of the See also:republic against the reactionary opposition, until his See also:death on the 20th of January 1880.
His See also:works include many speeches and addresses, notably La Liberte de la Presse (1849), Defense de F. Orsini (1866), Discours de reception a l'Academie fran(aise (1868), Discours sur la liberle interieure (1869). In Le Gouvernement de la Defense Nationale, 3 vols., 1871-1875, he explained his role in 1870-1871. After his death his See also:family published his speeches in 8 volurhes.
See G. See also:Hanotaux, Histoire de la France contenporaine (1903, &c.) ; also E. See also:Benoit-See also:Levy, Jules Favre (1884).
End of Article: FAVRE, JULES CLAUDE GABRIEL (1809-1880)
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