Alfred Talandier

France state institutions Liberalism and republicanism 1822–1890 ○ Died

Limoges lawyer exiled in England for opposing the 1851 coup, later a far-left deputy

Born in Limoges in 1822, he became a lawyer there in 1844 and in 1848 deputy public prosecutor at the Limoges court of appeal, from which the government dismissed him in 1849. Opposing the coup of 2 December 1851, he went into exile in England and returned to France only after 4 September 1870, becoming sub-prefect of Rochechouart. Dismissed by Thiers, he ran a newspaper in Limoges and then taught English at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Elected to the Paris municipal council in 1874, he sat with the Radicals and lost his teaching post for it; from 1876 to 1885 he was deputy for the Seine, sitting on the far left. He died in Paris in 1890.