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He was born in Paris. Marie Belloc Lowndes, in the second volume of her autobiography Where Love and Friendship Dwelt (1943), states that he was an illegitimate son of Napoleon and that he was ashamed of this and did not talk about it though everybody knew. She does not say who his mother was, but that he was related to her grandfather.
In his early years he worked briefly for the Ministry of Finance ( 1825– 1828), and was an active political journalist, and from 1826 to 1830 opposed the reactionary policy of the king in Le Globe . At the revolution of 1830 he signed the protestation of the journalists on July 28July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining. Events 1493 Great fire in Moscow 1540 One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell, is exe, 1830.
After 1830, he contributed to different newspapers, Le Constitutionnel, Le National and the Courrier français until 1833Events January 3 Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. June 6 U. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train. September 29 The infant Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain, under the regency of her mot, when he gave up politics in order to devote himself to the history of ancient philosophy, undertaking a translation of AristotleAristotle ( Greek Αριστοτλης Aristotelēs) ( 384 BCE March 7, 322 BCE) was a Greek scientist and philosopher. Along with Plato, he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philo, which occupied him the greater part of his life ( 1837Events January 10 DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana January 26 Michigan is admitted as the 26th U. State February 8 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate February 11 Americ- 1892Events January 1 Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States. January 14 Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger b). The reputation which he gained from this work won for him the chair of ancient philosophy at the Collège de FranceThe College de France is a higher education teaching and research establishment located in Paris, France. It was created in 1530 at the request of King Francis I of France. Of humanist inspiration, this school was established as an alternative to the Sorb ( 1838Events January 6 Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph. January 8 Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code) January 12 Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri Marc) and a seat at the Academy of Moral and Political Science ( 1839Events January 9 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. January 19 British East India Company captures Aden January 20 In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance. February 24 William Ot).
After the revolution of 1848 he was elected as a republican deputy from the département of Seine-et-Oise, but was obliged to withdraw after the coup d'état of Louis Napoleon ( 1851). In 1855 he went as member of the international commission to Egypt to report on the possibility of the proposed Suez canal, and by the articles which he wrote he contributed largely to making the project popular in France.
Elected deputyagain in 1869, he joined the opposition to the Empire, and in 1871 bent all his efforts to the election of Thiers as president of the republic, acting afterwards as his secretary. Appointed senator for life in 1875, he took his place among the moderate republicans, and from September 23, 1880 to November 14, 1881 was minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Jules Ferry. The most important event of his administration was the annexation of Tunis under the form of a French protectorate, which he actively promoted.
He died in 1895. His principal works, besides the translation of Aristotle and a number of studies connected with the same subject, are Des Védas ( 1854), Du Bouddhisme ( 1856) and Mahomet et le Coran ( 1865).