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SPULLER, EUGENE (1835-1896)

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SPULLER, See also:EUGENE (1835-1896) , See also:French politician and writer, was See also:born at Seurre (Cote d'Or) on the 8th of See also:December 1835, his See also:father being a See also:German who had married and settled in See also:France. After studying See also:law at See also:Dijon he went to See also:Paris, where he was called to the See also:bar, and entered into See also:close relations with See also:Gambetta, collaborating with him in 1868 in the See also:foundation of the Revue politique. He had helped Emile 011ivier in his electoral See also:campaign in Paris in 1863, but when in 1869 011ivier was preparing to " rally " to the See also:empire he supported the republican See also:candidate. During the See also:siege of Paris he escaped from the See also:city with Gambetta, to See also:act as his energetic See also:lieutenant in the provinces. After the See also:peace he edited his See also:chief's Parisian See also:organ, the Republique francaise, until in 1876 he entered the Chamber of Deputies for the See also:department of the See also:Seine. He was See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs during See also:part of the brief Gambetta See also:administration, and subsequently one of the See also:vice-presidents of the chamber, serving also on the See also:budget See also:commission and on a See also:special See also:industrial and agricultural inquiry. His Parisian constituents thought his policy too moderate on the clerical question, and he had to seek See also:election in 1885 in the Cote d'Or, which in later years he represented in the See also:Senate. He was minister of See also:education, See also:religion and the See also:fine arts in the See also:Rouvier See also:cabinet of 1887, minister of foreign affairs under See also:Tirard (1889—1890), and minister of education in 1894 in the Casimir-See also:Perier cabinet. He died on the 28th of See also:July 1896. His published See also:works include some volumes of speeches and well-known studies of See also:Ignatius See also:Loyola (1876) and of See also:Michelet (1876).

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