Hilaire, Jules Barthélemy-Saint-, 1805-1895, French statesman, journalist and scholar

1825-1828 Ministry of Finance; 1826-1830 editor, The Globe; 1830-1833 contributor to Le Constitutionnel, Le National and the Courrier français; 1833 professor of French literature; c 1830s-1851 Chair of Greek and Latin, College de France; c 1830s-1895 department of Moral and Political Sciences, the Institute; 1840 chief of cabinet to the minister of public instruction; 1848-1851 elected republican deputy from the département of Seine-et-Oise to the National Assembly; 1849-1851 member of the parliamentary commission on education; 1855 member of the international commission to Egypt on the proposed Suez Canal; 1869-1875 elected from Seine-et-Oise to the Chamber of Deputies; 1875 appointed senator for life; 1880-1881 minister of foreign affairs.

Epithet: French statesman, journalist and scholar

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