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LEMIRE, JULES AUGUSTE (1853— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEMIRE, JULES AUGUSTE (1853— ) , See also:French See also:priest and social reformer, was See also:born at Vieux-Berquin (See also:Nord) on the 23rd of See also:April 18J3. He was educated at the See also:college of St See also:Francis of See also:Assisi, See also:Hazebrouck, where he subsequently taught See also:philosophy and See also:rhetoric. In 1897 he was elected See also:deputy for Hazebrouck and was returned unopposed at the elections of 1898, 1902 and 1906. He organized a society called La Ligue du See also:coin de terre et du foyer, the See also:object of which was to secure, at the expense of the See also:state, a piece of See also:land for every French See also:family desirous of possessing one. The See also:abbe Lemire sat in the chamber of deputies as a conservative republican and See also:Christian Socialist. He protested in 1893 against the See also:action of the See also:Dupuy See also:cabinet in closing the See also:Bourse du Travail, characterizing it as the expression of " a policy of disdain of the workers." In See also:December 1893 he was seriously injured by the See also:bomb thrown by the anarchist Vaillant from the See also:gallery of the chamber.

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