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WALLGN, HENRI ALEXANDRE (1812-1904)

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WALLGN, See also:HENRI See also:ALEXANDRE (1812-1904) , See also:French historian and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Valenciennes on the 23rd of See also:December 1812. Devoting himself to a See also:literary career, he became in 1840 See also:professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure under the patronage of See also:Guizot, whom he succeeded as professor at the Faculte See also:des Lettres in 1846. His See also:works on See also:slavery in the French colonies (1847) and on slavery in antiquity (1848; new edition in 3 vols., 1879) led to his being placed, after the Revolution of 1848, on a See also:commission for the regulation of labour in the French colonial possessions, and in See also:November 1849 he was elected to the Legislative See also:Assembly by the See also:department of the See also:Nord. He resigned in 185o, disapproving of the measure for the restriction of the See also:suffrage adopted by the See also:majority. In the same See also:year he was elected a member of the Academie des See also:Inscriptions, of which he became perpetual secretary in 1873. Under the See also:empire he withdrew altogether from See also:political See also:life, and occupied himself entirely with his duties as a professor of See also:history and with See also:historical writings, the most See also:original of which is a See also:biography, See also:Richard II, See also:episode de la rivalite de la See also:France et de l'Angleterre (2 vols., 1864). Although remaining a re-publican, he exhibited decided clerical leanings in his Jeanne d'Arc (2 vols., 186o; 2nd ed., 1875); La See also:Vie de Notre Seigneur Jesus (x865)—a reply to the Vie de Jesus of E. See also:Renan; and See also:Saint See also:Louis et son temps (1871; 4th ed., 1892), which still ranks among hagiographical works. Returning to politics after the Franco-See also:German See also:War, Wallon was re-elected by the department of the Nord in 1871, took an active See also:part in the proceedings of the Assembly, and finally immortalized himself by carrying his proposition for the See also:establishment of the See also:Republic with a See also:president elected for seven years, and then eligible for re-See also:election, which, after violent debates, was adopted by the Assembly on the 3oth of See also:January 1875. " Ma proposition," he declared, " ne proclame pas la Republique, elle la fait." Upon the definitive establishment of the Republic, Wallon became See also:Minister of Public Instruction, and effected many useful reforms, but his views were too conservative for the majority of the Assembly, and he retired in May 1876. He had been chosen a life senator in December 1875. Returning to his historical studies, Wallon produced four works of See also:great importance, though less from his part in them as author than from the documents which accompanied them: La Terreur (1873); Histoire du tribunal revolutionnaire de See also:Paris avec le See also:journal de ses actes (6 vols., 1880-1882); La Revolution du 31 See also:mai et le federalisme en 1793 (2 vols., 1886); See also:Les Representants du See also:people en See also:mission et la See also:justice revolutionnaire dans les departements (5 vols., 1880-1890).

Besides these he published a number of articles in the Journal des savants; for many years he wrote the history of the Academie des Inscriptions in the collection of See also:

Memoirs of this See also:Academy, and he composed obituary notices of his colleagues, which were inserted in the Bulletin. He died at Paris on the 13th of November 1904.

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