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682 - MARSEILLE / POLITICS - Emile OLIVIER ( * ) - THREE PHOTOGRAP…
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MARSEILLE / POLITICS - Emile OLIVIER ( * ) - THREE PHOTOGRAPHS, full-face busts, circa 1860–1870 by TERUEL ‘Photographie Centrale de France’ in NEVERS, Pierre PETIT ‘Photographie des Deux Mondes’ in PARIS and CH. REUTLINGER in PARIS. Three albumin bromide portraits mounted on card in visiting-card format, approximately 10.5 × 6.3 cm. ( * ) E. OLIVIER: born on 2 July 1825 in Marseille, died on 20 August 1913 in St Gervais-les-Bains. A lawyer and later a prefect under the Second Republic, he was elected as a Republican deputy under the Second Empire. Napoleon III tasked him with forming a government of ‘new men’, bringing together liberal Bonapartists and Orléanists who had rallied to the cause. Son of Démosthène OLIVIER, Member of Parliament for the Bouches-du-Rhône. He was educated at the Imperial College in Marseille, then at the Lycée Louis le Grand. Member of the Académie Française from 1870 to 1913.
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