Charles-Ange Laisant
Charles-Ange Laisant (born November 1, 1841 in Indre near Nantes , † May 5, 1920 in Asnières-sur-Seine ) was a French politician and mathematician .
Life
Laisant entered the Polytechnic School in 1861 and, after completing his course on the same, was assigned to the Corps of Geniuses . In 1870 he was a captain , during the siege of Paris he was entrusted with the fortification work on Fort Issy and sent to Corsica and Algiers on official matters.
Since he was decidedly republican and fought against the then monarchist government as a general councilor of the Loire-Inférieure department , he retired from military service in 1876 and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies at Nantes , in which he joined the Republican Association; later he belonged to the radicals. He was on the extreme left throughout his 15-year parliamentary term. He made himself particularly noticeable through his several times rejected but repeated requests for changes to the military law , for the abolition of one-year volunteers and for the reduction of the period of service from five to three years.
Laisant was also active as a mathematician and received his doctorate in 1877 ; he published: Introduction à la méthode des quaternions (1881). From 1879 he was editor of Le Petit Parisien , in which he violently attacked the French Minister of War Ernest Courtot de Cissey because of his affair with the alleged German spy Lucie von Kaulla (1840-1891?), For which he was sentenced to a fine in November 1880 .
From 1893 he became an anarchist under the influence of his son Albert (1873–1928) and remained so until the end of his life. In the years before the First World War, he wrote articles for the newspapers La Bataille syndicaliste , L'école émancipée and L'idée libre . In 1916 Laisant was a signatory to the Manifesto of the Sixteen , initiated by anarchists from around the world.
Laisant is buried in an urn grave in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, in which the urns of his son Albert (militant anarchist and poet) and his grandson Charles (1911–1952) (militant anarcho-syndicalist and pacifist ) are also included.
Individual evidence
- ^ Act of birth: Indre, 1841, page 20. Cf. fr. Page.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laisant, Charles-Ange |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nantes |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1920 |
| Place of death | Asnières-sur-Seine |