Jules Auguste Lemire French

France

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 priest and social reformer, was born at Vieux-Berquin

Vieux-Berquin

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 (Nord).

He was educated at the college of St Francis of Assisi, Hazebrouck

Hazebrouck

-Communications:The town enjoys excellent rail connections, with frequent daily services to Lille and Paris, some by High Speed Line. There is a small international airport, concentrating on business flights, at Merville-Calonne just 12 kilometre / 8 miles away...

, where he subsequently taught philosophy

Philosophy

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 and rhetoric

Rhetoric

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. In 1897 he was elected deputy for Hazebrouck and was returned unopposed at the elections of 1898, 1902 and 1906.

He organized a society called La Ligue française du coin de terre et du foyer, the object of which was to secure, at the expense of the state, a piece of land for every French family desirous of possessing one. The abbé Lemire sat in the chamber of deputies as a conservative republican and Christian Socialist.

He protested in 1893 against the action of the Dupuy

Charles Dupuy

Charles Alexandre Dupuy was a French statesman, three times prime minister.-Biography:He was born in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, where his father was a minor official. After a period as a professor of philosophy in the provinces, he was appointed a school inspector, thus obtaining a...

 cabinet in closing the Bourses du Travail, characterizing it as the expression of a policy of disdain of the workers. In December 1893 he was seriously injured by the bomb thrown by the anarchist Vaillant

Auguste Vaillant

Auguste Vaillant was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1893. The government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates.He threw the home-made device from the public gallery and was...

from the gallery of the chamber.
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External links:

The history of the college of St Francis of Assisi (in English)

Jules Lemire's life in St Francis of Assisi (1866-1893) (in French)
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