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LOCK ROY

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LOCK See also:ROY , $DOUARD (1838– ), See also:French politician, son of See also:Joseph Philippe See also:Simon (1803–1891), an actor and dramatist who took the name of Lockroy, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 18th of See also:July 1838. He had begun by studying See also:art, but in 186o en-listed as a volunteer under See also:Garibaldi. The next three years were spent in See also:Syria as secretary to Ernest See also:Renan, and on his return to Paris he embarked in militant journalism against the second See also:empire in the See also:Figaro, the Diable a quatre, and eventually in the Rappel, with which his name was thenceforward intimately connected. He commanded a See also:battalion during the See also:siege of Paris, and in See also:February 1871 was elected See also:deputy to the See also:National See also:Assembly where he sat on the extreme See also:left and protested against the preliminaries of See also:peace. In See also:March he signed the See also:proclamation for the See also:election of the See also:Commune, and resigned his seat as deputy. Arrested at Vanves he remained a prisoner at See also:Versailles and See also:Chartres until See also:June when he was released without being tried. He was more than once imprisoned for violent articles in the See also:press, and in 1872 for a See also:duel with See also:Paul de See also:Cassagnac. He was returned to the Chamber in 1873 as See also:Radical deputy for Bouches-du-See also:Rhone in 1876, 1877 and 1881 for See also:Aix, and in 1881 he was also elected in the 11th See also:arrondissement of Paris. He elected to sit for Paris, and was repeatedly re-elected. During the elections of 1893 he was shot at by a See also:cab-See also:driver poet named See also:Moore, but was not seriously injured. For the first ten years of his See also:parliamentary See also:life he voted consistently with the extreme left, but then adopted a more opportunist policy, and gave his unreserved support to the See also:Brisson See also:ministry of 1885. In the new See also:Freycinet See also:cabinet formed in See also:January he held the See also:portfolio of See also:commerce and See also:industry, which he retained in the See also:Goblet ministry of 1886-1887.

In 1885 he had been returned at the See also:

head of the See also:poll for Paris, and his inclusion in the Freycinet ministry was taken to indicate a prospect of reconciliation between Parisian Radicalism and See also:official Republicanism. During his See also:tenure of the portfolio of commerce and industry he made the preliminary arrangements for the Exposition of 1889, and in a witty See also:letter he defended the erection of the Tour Eiffel against See also:artistic Paris. After the See also:Panama and Boulangist scandals he became one of the leading politicians of the Radical party. He was See also:vice-See also:president of the Chamber in 1894 and in 1895, when he became See also:minister of marine under See also:Leon See also:Bourgeois. His drastic See also:measures of reform alarmed moderate politicians, but he had the confidence of the See also:country, and held the same portfolio under See also:Henri Brisson (1898) and See also:Charles See also:Dupuy (1898–1899). He gave his support to the Waldeck-See also:Rousseau See also:Administration, but actively criticized the marine policy of Camille See also:Pelletan in the See also:Combes ministry of 1902–1905, during which See also:period he was again vice-president of the Chamber. M. Lockroy was a persistent and successful See also:advocate of a strong See also:naval policy, in See also:defence of which he published La Marine de Guerre (189o), Six mois See also:rue Royale (1897) , La Defense navale (1900), Du See also:Weser a la See also:Vistula (1901), See also:Les See also:Marines francaise et See also:allemande (1904), Le See also:Programme naval (1906). His other See also:works include M. de See also:Moltke et la guerre future (1891) and See also:Journal d'une bourgeoise See also:pendant la Revolution (1881) derived from the letters of his See also:great-grandmother. M. Lockroy married in 1877 Madame Charles See also:Hugo, the daughter-in-See also:law of the poet.

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