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town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:Province, situated on an elevated See also:plateau, iroo ft. above See also:sea-level, 6 m. by See also:rail S. of See also:Barmen and 20 M. N.E. of See also:Cologne. Pop. (1905) 64,340. Remscheid is a centre of the hardware See also:industry, and large quantities of tools, scythes, skates and other small articles in See also:iron, See also:steel and See also:brass are made for export. to all parts of See also:Europe, the See also:East, and See also:North and See also:South See also:America. The name of Remscheid occurs in a document of 1132, and the town received the first impulse to its See also:industrial importance through the See also:immigration of See also:Protestant refugees from See also:France and See also:Holland. R$MUSAT, See also:CHARLES See also:FRANCOIS See also:MARIE, See also:COMTE DE (1797-1875), See also:French politician and See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 13th of See also:March 1797. His See also:father, Auguste See also:Laurent, Comte de See also:Remusat, of a See also:good See also:family of See also:Toulouse, was chamber-lain to See also:Napoleon, but acquiesced in the restoration and became See also:prefect first of Haute See also:Garonne, and then of See also:Nord. His See also:mother's See also:maiden name was Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de See also:Vergennes, born in 1780. She married at sixteen, and was attached to See also:Josephine as See also:dame du palais in 1802. Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally recognized as a woman of See also:great intellectual capacity and See also:personal See also:grace. After her See also:death (1824) an Essai sur l'See also:education See also:des femmes was published and received an See also:academic couronne.

But it was not until her See also:

grandson See also:Paul de Remusat published her Memoires (3 vols., Paris, 2879-80), which have since been followed by some See also:correspondence with her son (2 vols., 2881), that See also:justice could be ' done to her See also:literary See also:talent. Much See also:light was thrown on the See also:Napoleonic See also:court by this See also:book, and on the youth and education of her son Charles. He See also:early See also:developed See also:political views wore liberal than those of his parents, and, being bred to the See also:bar, published in 182o a pamphlet on trial by See also:jury. He was an active journalist, showing in See also:philosophy and literature the See also:influence of See also:Cousin, and is said to have furnished to no small extent the See also:original of See also:Balzac's brilliant egoist See also:Henri de Marsay. He signed the journalists' protest against the Ordinances of See also:July 1830, and in the following See also:October was elected See also:deputy for Haute Garonne. He then ranked himself with the See also:doctrinaires, and supported most of those See also:measures of restriction on popular See also:liberty which made the July See also:monarchy unpopular with French Radicals. In 1836 he became for a See also:short See also:time under-secretary of See also:state for the interior. He then became an ally of See also:Thiers, and in 1840 held the See also:ministry of the interior for a brief See also:period. In the same See also:year he became an Academician. For the See also:rest of See also:Louis Philippe's reign he was in opposition till he joined Thiers in his See also:attempt at a ministry in the See also:spring of 1848. During this time Remusat constantly spoke in the chamber, but was still more active in literature, especially on philosophical subjects, the most remarkable of his See also:works being his book on See also:Abelard (2 vols., 1845). In 1848 he was elected, and in 1849 re-elected, for Haute Garonne, and voted with the Conservative See also:side.

He had to leave France after the coup d'etat; nor did he re-enter political See also:

life during the Second See also:Empire until 2868, when he founded a moderate opposition See also:journal at. Toulouse. In 2871 he refused the See also:Vienna See also:embassy offered him by Thiers, but in See also:August he was appointed See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs in See also:succession to M. Jules See also:Favre. Although minister he was not a deputy, and on See also:standing for Paris in See also:September 1873 he was beaten by See also:Desire Barodet. A See also:month later he was elected (having already resigned with Thiers) for Haute Garonne by a great See also:majority. He died in Paris on the 6th of See also:January 1875. During his abstention from politics Remusat continued to write on philosophical See also:history, especially See also:English. See also:Saint See also:Anselme de Cantorbery appeared in 1854; L'Angleterre au XVIIIbme sitcle in 1856 (2nd ed. enlarged, 1865); See also:Bacon, sa See also:vie, son temps, &'c., in 1858; Charming, sa vie et ses oeuvres, in 1862; See also:John See also:Wesley in 1870; See also:Lord See also:Herbert de Cherbury in 1874; Histoire de la philosophie en Angleterre depuis Bacon jusqu' d See also:Locke in 1875; besides other and See also:minor works. He wrote well, was a forcible See also:speaker and an acute critic; but his See also:adoption of the indeterminate See also:eclecticism of Cousin in philosophy and of the somewhat similarly indeterminate liberalism of Thiers in politics probably limited his See also:powers, though both no doubt accorded with his See also:critical and unenthusiastic turn of mind. His son PAUL DE REMUSAT (1831—1897) became a distinguished journalist and writer. He was for many years a See also:regular contributor to the Revue des deux mondes.

He stood for See also:

election in Haute-Garonne in 1869 in opposition to the imperial policy and failed, but was elected to the See also:National See also:Assembly in 1871 and later. In 1890 he entered the Academie des sciences morales et politiques.

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