M. CREMIEUX.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1864, 13 February 1880, Page 3

M. CREMIEUX.

The following biography of this French statesman, whose death was announce 1 in yesterday morning’s European intelligence, is supplied by “ Men of the Time ” :—Cremieux, Isaac Adolphe, lawyer and legislator, born at Nismes of Jewish parents, April 30th, 1796, was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for several years during the reign of Louis-Philippo, and always voted with the Reform party against M. Guizot. He was an energetic supporter of the exclusion of paid functionaries (Ministers excepted) from the Chamber; and he advocated the most comprehensive principles of free trade- When the game law, initiated in the Chamber of Peers, was discussed in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Cremieux opposed it vigorously. Finding that Ministers were resolved to carry it, he succeeded in procuring the suppression of the clause which exempted Crown lands from the provisions of the measure; but the Peers restored the obnoxious paragraph. When Count Duchatel made his memorable declaration that no reform would be granted, and that the Government had resolved to put down the Reform banquets, M. Cremieux exclaimed, “There is blood in this!” Encountering liOuis-Philippe and his queen in the Place de la Concorde, on the Thursday of their flight, M. Cremieux recommended them to depart immediately, “no hope for them being left,” and proceeded to the Chamber of Deputies, where he advocated the formation of a provisional Government, and was made Minister of Justice. He is one of the authors of the “Oodedes Codes” (1834). After the coup d’etat, he was arrested and taken to Mazas. He then retired from political life for several years, and devoted himself to his profession at the French bar. When the new laws were passed respecting the right of public meeting in the early part of 1869, M. Cremieux emerged from his retirement and made voice heard at various literary and political conferences at Paris. In the same year he made an attempt to enter the Corps Legislatif, but was defeated by the official candidate. When the Government of the National Defence was established in September, 1870, M. Cremieux was nominated Minister of Justice, and he was one of the Ministers composing the Government Delegation at Tours, and subsequently at Bordeaux. Oo February 14th, 1871, he placed in the hands of the President of the National Assembly his resignation as Minister, He was elected a Senator for life by the National Assembly on December 15th, 1875.