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He had just before married, for his second wife (the first having 

 survived her marriage only two years), Mile, de Lasteyrie, the 

 granddaughter of the celebrated Marquis de Lafayette. He was an 

 aide-de-camp of Lafayette at this period, when the marquis was com- 

 mander-in-chief of the National Guard. He soon entered the Cham- 

 ber of Deputies, was in the confidential cabinet service of M. Casimir 

 Perier, and afterwards Minister of the Interior. As writer, deputy, 

 and minister, he uniformly espoused and advocated liberal oi)inions 

 and measures. He protested against the coup d'etat of Napoleon IH. 

 in 1851, and was imprisoned and afterwards exiled. 



He had been made a member of the Academy of Moral and Politi- 

 cal Sciences in 1842, and one of the forty members of the French 

 Academy in 1846. His exemption from political service during the 

 Second Empire gave him the desired opportunity to pursue his |)hilo- 

 sophical and literary studies. He had published two volumes of Philo- 

 sophical Essays, iu 1842; two volumes on Abelard, in 1845; and, 

 in the same year, an elaborate Report to the Academy on German 

 Philosophy. In 1854, he published a work on the spiritual power 

 of the eleventh century, under the title of " Saint Anselm of Canter- 

 bury;" in 1856, he published "Studies and Portraits of England in 

 the Eighteenth Century," a work which he enlarged to two volumes 

 in 1865; in 1858, he 23ublished his " Life, Time, and Philosophy of 

 Bacon;" and, in 1864, a volume on Religious Philosophy. 



A volume entitled " Chanuing, sa Vie et ses Q^uvres," of which 

 a second edition was printed in 1861, has been sometimes included in 

 the works of Remusat; but he wrote only the prefaces to the succes- 

 sive editions, while the volume itself was written by an accomplished 

 English lady, Mrs. Robert Hollond. 



In 1871, after the downfall of the empire and the conclusion of the 

 war with Germany, M. de Remusat was made Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs, and was prominently associated with M. Thiers in achieving 

 the territorial liberation of France from German occupation. When 

 M. Thiers resigned the Presidency of the French Republic in 1873, 

 M. de Remusat also retired from ministerial service. He remained, 

 however, a member of the Chamber of Deputies to the end of his life. 



A few months only before his death, he laid before the French 

 Academy his " History of Philosophy in England from Bacon to 

 Locke," in two volumes. 



He was buried in the old Cimitiere de Picpus in Paris, where the 

 tomb of Lafayette is well known to American travellers. Eulogies 

 were jjronounced at his grave by representatives of the French Acad- 



