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Lazare Escarguel

Lazare Escarguel

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Lazare Escarguel (1816–1893) was a French politician and newspaper editor.

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Biography

Elected as a councillor in Perpignan in 1865, Lazare Escarguel became the mayor of that city in 1870. The following year, he was elected as a member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Orientales, and was reelected in 1876, 1877 (against Colonel Falcon with 13,235 votes vs 8,276)[1] and in 1881.[2] Escarguel is then elected as a senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 1882 to 1891.[3] He finally retired in his birth town, where he died in 1893 of apoplexy.

Lazare Escarguel was also a founding member of the newspaper L'Indépendant for its second start in 1868.

References

  1. [1]
    (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Un agent trop zélé, Rivesaltes le 6 octobre 1877, 17 February 2014
  2. [2]
    National Assembly biography
  3. [3]
    Senate biography


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