François-Vincent Raspail (January 25, 1794 - January 7, 1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, physiologist, and socialist politician.
Raspail was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. A member of the republican Carbonari society, Raspail was imprisoned during Louis Philippe's reign (1830-1848) and was a candidate for presidency of the Second Republic in December 1848. However, he was then involved in the attempted revolt of May 15, 1848, and in March 1...
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François-Vincent Raspail (January 25, 1794 - January 7, 1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, physiologist, and socialist politician.
Raspail was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse. A member of the republican Carbonari society, Raspail was imprisoned during Louis Philippe's reign (1830-1848) and was a candidate for presidency of the Second Republic in December 1848. However, he was then involved in the attempted revolt of May 15, 1848, and in March 1849 was again imprisoned as a result. After Louis Napoleon's December 2, 1851 coup, his sentence was commuted to exile, from which he returned to France only in 1862. In 1869, during the liberal phase of the Second Empire (1851-1870), he was elected deputy from Lyon. He remained a popular republican during the French Third Republic, after the short-term Paris Commune in 1871.
His sons, Benjamin (eldest), François, Xavier (youngest) and Émile, were also all notable figures in the Third Republic.
Raspail was one of the founders of the cell...
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