Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Liquid Gases" to "Logar"

part in politics. He felt himself too old to undergo the privations of

the siege of Paris, and retired with his family to Britanny, whence he was summoned by M. Gambetta to Bordeaux, to lecture on history, and thence to Versailles to take his seat in the senate to which he had been chosen by the department of the Seine. In December 1871 he was elected a member of the Académie França...