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he was elected maire of the fifteenth arron- 

 dissement of Paris, and in 1871 was elected 

 to the Assembly from the department of the 

 Seine. He joined the extreme Left, and in the 

 debate on the Internationals he opposed the 

 law presented by M. Dufaure as dangerous and 

 useless. 



COEDIEE, STANISLAS ALPHONSE, was born 

 February 27, 1820, at ficonche. He studied 

 at Lisieux, and in 1838 went to Paris and de- 

 voted himself to commercial and manufactur- 

 ing pursuits. He was admitted to the Free 

 Society of Commerce and Industry in 1850, 

 and one year later became its vice-president. 

 In 1857 he was elected a member of the 

 Chamber of Commerce of Seine - Inferieure, 

 and soon after secretary of the same, which 

 office he held for ten years. At the Universal 

 Exhibition of 1867 he obtained two silver 

 medals for his impressions on cloth and his 

 new process of dyeing. In the National As- 

 sembly, to which he was elected in 1851 from 

 the department of Seine-Ini<rieure, he joined 

 the Left Centre. 



COENE, HYACINTHE MAEIE AUGUSTE, was 

 born August 28, 1802, at Arras. In 1837 he 

 was elected to the Chamber, but was defeated 

 in 1846. In 1848 he was appointed attorney- 

 general for Douay by the Provisional Govern- 

 ment, and shortly afterwards, attorney-general 

 in the Court of Appeals in Paris, in which po- 

 sition he asked for the indictment of Louis 

 Blanc and Causidiere. In the same year he 

 was elected to the Assembly from the depart- 

 ment of Nord. After the coup (Tetat, against 

 which he protested, he retired to private life. 

 In the National Assembly, to which he was 

 elected in 1871 from the department of Nord, 

 he joined the Left Centre. Among his numer- 

 ous literary labors, the works on the Cardi- 

 nals Richelieu and Mazarin and the works 

 "Marcel" (2 vols., 1858), and "Souvenirs d'un 

 Present" (1861,) are best known. 



COBNULIEE - LUCINIEBE, ALBEET HIPPOLITE 

 HENBI, COUNT DE, born July 17, 1809, at Joue- 

 snr-Erdre. He entered the gardes-du-corps in 

 1830, but in consequence of the revolution left 

 France, and in 1833 obtained a position as lieu- 

 tenant in Dom Miguel's army in Portugal. In 

 1871 he was elected to the Assembly from the 

 department of Loire-Inferieure, where he be- 

 longs to the extreme Right. 



CEEMIEUX, ISAAC ADOLPHE, was born of Jew- 

 ish parents at Nimes, April 30, 1796. Having 

 finished his studies at the College of Louis le 

 Grand, he became a lawyer in his native town, 

 where he distinguished himself in the defense 

 of political criminals. His advent in Paris in 

 1830 was not so successful. He exerted him- 

 self to such a degree in the defense of M. 

 Guernon-Ranville, a minister- of Charles X., 

 that he fainted away in the court. Having 

 purchased of Odillot his office and functions 

 as advocate, he defended with great ability a 

 number of Republicans accused of political 

 offenses. In 1840 he went to Egypt and Tur- 



key, where he defended with success the Jews 

 of Damascus charged with the murder of a 

 Catholic priest. In 1842 he was elected to the 

 Chamber of Deputies, and was reflected in 

 1846. After the revolution of 1848 he was in 

 favor of the regency of the Duchess of Orleans. 

 But the Chamber had already been taken pos- 

 session of by the Republicans, and, carried away 

 by the movement, he assisted in the proclama- 

 tion of the Republic, and as Minister of Justice 

 took part in the Provisional Government. He 

 resigned on June 7th, but, having been elected 

 to the Assembly from two departments, he took 

 his seat for the department of Indre-et-Loire. 

 In 1848 he favored the election of Louis Na- 

 poleon, but soon went over to the opposition. 

 After the coup d'etat he was arrested. After 

 this he withdrew for a time from politics. In 

 1870 he was a member of the Government 

 of National Defense and Minister of Justice. 

 In 1871 he was elected a member of the Na- 

 tional Assembly from Algeria, and on February 

 14th of the same year resigned his position as 

 a member of the Government. In the As- 

 sembly he has voted with the moderate Re- 

 publicans. He has been for years the presi- 

 dent of the Universal Israelitic Alliance, in 

 which position he has done very much to re- 

 lieve the sufferings of his co-religionists. 



DENOBMANDIE, Louis JULES EENEST, a Pa- 

 risian attorney, was during the siege of Paris 

 maire of the eighth arrondissement, and is a 

 devoted friend of M. Thiers. In 1871 he was 

 elected to the National Assembly from the 

 department of the Seine. In the Assembly he 

 joined the Left Centre. 



DOUET, COUNT, is a member of the extreme 

 Right, but of no use to his party except for 

 voting. During the entire session of the As- 

 sembly he has not once taken part in de- 

 bate. 



DUCLEEC, CHAELES THEODOEE EUGENE, was 

 born at Bagneres de Bigorre, November 9, 

 1812. In 1836 he began his literary career as 

 proof-reader of the journal Le Bon Sens, of 

 which he soon became one of the editors-in- 

 chief. In 1838 he became editor of La Revue 

 de Progres, and at the same time edited the 

 " Dictionnaire Politique." In 1840 he assumed 

 the editorship of the National^ which he left 

 in 1846. On February 25, 1848, he was ap- 

 pointed assistant to the Mayor of Paris, Gamier 

 Pages, Jr., and as such prepared several meas- 

 ures to remodel the police on the plan of the 

 London force, which were afterward put into 

 execution. On March 6th he became under- 

 secretary of State. He was soon after elected 

 to the Constituent Assembly by the depart- 

 ment of Laudes, and on the 10th of May was 

 appointed Minister of Finance. When the 

 Constitutent Assembly adjourned he retired 

 to private life. In 1871 he was elected to the 

 National Assembly from the department of 

 Basses-Pyrenees. He joined the Left, and 

 voted against the preliminaries of peace. 



DUMON, M., born in 1806 ; is the proprietor 



