See Also: Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre-Auguste(encyclopedia)
Rollin' To Go(tourism)
Rhodes, Alexandre de(encyclopedia)
Dumas, Alexandre(encyclopedia)
Dumas, Alexandre(dictionary)
Millerand, Alexandre(encyclopedia)
Carteaud, Alexandre(medicine)
Alexandre (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de(encyclopedia)
Benois, Alexandre (Nikolayevich)(encyclopedia)

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre-Auguste (sh)




born Feb. 2, 1807, Paris, France
died Dec. 31, 1874, Fontenay-aux-Roses

French radical politician.

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1839, but his insistence on the need for a republican government isolated him from other leftists. Following the February Revolution, through his influence as minister of the interior in the provisional government (1848), elections for a new legislature were held for the first time under universal manhood suffrage. In 1849 he demanded the impeachment of Louis-Napoleon (later Napoleon III) and led an unsuccessful insurrection. He fled to England but returned to France after the amnesty of 1870.