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lie luul just before luiinied, for his second wife (llie lirst having 

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

 graiid(hiui,diter of the cele])rated Manpiis (hi Lafayette. He was an 

 aide-de-eani[) of l-,afayette at this period, when the marquis was com- 

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

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

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

 and minister, he uuiforiuly espoused and advocated liberal opinions 

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

 in 1801, 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 philo- 

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

 sophical Essays, in 1842; two volumes on Abelard, in 184"); 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 published his " Life, Time, and Philosophy of 

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



A volume entitled " Chanuing, sa Vie et ses Qi^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 187.'3, 

 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 Ciraitiere de Picpus in Paris, where the 

 tomb of Lafayette is well known to American travellers. F^ulogies 

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



