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See also:PROUST, ANTONIN (1832–1905) , See also:French journalist and politician, was See also:born at See also:Niort on the 15th of See also:March 1832. He founded in 1864 an See also:anti-imperial See also:journal, La Semaine hebdomadaire which appeared at See also:Brussels. He was See also:war correspondent to Le Temps in the See also:early days of the Franco-See also:German War, but after See also:Sedan he returned to See also:Paris, where he became secretary to See also:Gambetta and superintended the refugees in Paris. He entered the Chamber as See also:deputy for his native See also:town in 1876, taking his seat on the See also:left. In Gambetta's See also:cabinet (188r–1882) he was See also:minister of the See also:fine arts, and in the Chamber of Deputies he was regularly commissioned to draw up the See also:budget for the fine arts, after the See also:separate See also:department had ceased to exist. Prosecuted in connexion with the See also:Panama scandals, he was acquitted in 1893. From this 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 he lived in the closest retirement. On the loth of March 1905 he shot himself in the See also:head, dying of the See also:wound two days later.
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