'Adolphe Thiers', (1797-1877), French politician and historian, 1893. Artist: Unknown.

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Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), French politician and historian, 1893. Thiers was a leading historian of the French Revolution. He was Prime Minister in 1836, 1840 and 1848 and vocal opponent of Emperor Napoleon III, who reigned 1848-71. His suppression of the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871 killed thousands of Parisians. From The Pictorial Treasury of Famous Men and Famous Deeds published by Frederick Warne and Co. [London and New York, 1893]

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