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TIRARD, PIERRE EMANUEL (1827–1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1006 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIRARD, See also:PIERRE EMANUEL (1827–1893) , See also:French politician, was See also:born of French parents at See also:Geneva on the 27th of See also:September 1827, and, after studying in his native See also:town, became a See also:civil engineer. After five years of See also:government service he resigned to become a See also:jewel See also:merchant. His determined opposition to the See also:empire, culminating in 1869 in a See also:campaign in favour of the See also:radical See also:candidate opposed to 011ivier, was rewarded by his See also:election as See also:mayor of the See also:firth See also:arrondissement of See also:Paris and as See also:deputy for the See also:Seine. Nominated a member of the See also:Commune, he protested against the tyranny of the central See also:committee, and escaped from Paris to resume his See also:place among the extreme See also:Left in the See also:National See also:Assembly at See also:Versailles. In 1876 he was returned for the 1st arrondissement of Paris to the Chamber of Deputies, and was re-elected next See also:year. He specially de-voted himself to See also:finance, being for a See also:short See also:time See also:president of the customs See also:commission before his See also:appointment as See also:minister of See also:agriculture and See also:commerce in See also:March 1879 in the See also:Waddington See also:cabinet. He held the same See also:portfolio in the first See also:Freycinet See also:ministry (1879–1880) and in the Jules See also:Ferry cabinet (1880–1881). He was minister of commerce in Freycinet's second cabinet (1882), of finance under E. Duclerc (1882–1883), and under A. Fallieres (1883), retaining the same See also:office in the second Jules Ferry ministry (1883–1885). When See also:Carnot became president of the See also:Republic in 1887 he asked Tirard to See also:form a ministry. He had to See also:deal with the See also:Wilson See also:scandal which had led to President See also:Grevy's downfall, and with the revisionist agitation of See also:General See also:Boulanger.

His refusal to proceed to the revision of the constitution of 1875 led to his defeat on the 3oth of March 1888. He returned to See also:

power next year, and decided to bring Boulanger and his See also:chief supporters before the High See also:Court, but the general's See also:flight effectively settled the question. He also arrested See also:Philip, See also:duke of See also:Orleans, who had visited See also:France in disguise. He resigned office on the 15th of March 1890 on the question of the Franco See also:Turkish commercial treaty. He re-placed M. See also:Rouvier in the See also:Ribot cabinet (1892–1893) as minister of finance, and died in Paris on the 4th of See also:November 1893.

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