3-052-790 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

M. Challemel-Lacour, the new French Ambassador in London, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Etienne Carjat. 'M. Paul Armand Challemel-Lacour...became Professor of Philosophy at the famous school of Pau when only twenty-two years old...he became noted for his Republican opinions; he was arrested immediately after the coup d'etat of Dec. 2, and passed some months in a Paris prison, in 1852 he was expelled from France...he removed to Zurich, where he had obtained the appointment of Professor of French Literature at the Polytechnic College...He became an habitual writer for the press...The range of his capabilities extended over fine arts, theatrical criticism, foreign literature, and political philosophy...After the Revolution of Sept. 4, 1870, he was named Prelect of the Rhône and Commissioner Extraordinary for the Republic...He was elected a Deputy for the Bouches-du-Rhône at the National Assembly by nearly 50,000 votes...It was he, M. Allain Targé, and M. Ranc, who were the original founders and editors of the République Française, which has done more than any other journal, La France not excepted, to secure the triumph of the Republican cause'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.