Marie Anselme Victor Henri Laugel (3 April 1851,

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- 29 July 1928,

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) was a French- Alsatian author and politician.

Biography

His father, François Joseph Victor Laugel (1817-1885), a locksmith, served on the Strasbourg City Council, as did his grandfather, François Antoine Laugel (1779-1848), who was also a locksmith."LAUGEL"
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After attending a

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in his hometown, and the

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, he took his degree in 1870. That same year, he served with the "Légions d' Alsace-Lorraine" in

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, during the

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. After the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, he left to study in Paris. Later, he worked for the Secretariat of the

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. In 1891, he returned home and became Chairman of the Agricultural Council in the district of , then founding President of the Wine Growers' Association of Alsace. In 1896 he was elected to the (Bezirkstag), representing

Oberelsaß Upper Alsace (, ) was the southern part of the historical region Alsace. From 1871 to 1918, ''Bezirk Oberelsaß'' was a region (''Bezirk'') in the southern part of the province of Alsace–Lorraine in the German Empire. The region corresponds e ...

(Upper Alsace). From 1890 to 1911, he was a member of the Regional Committee of the . In 1897, he married Marie Hervé (1861-1948), daughter of the district tax collector. They had no children. In addition to his political activities, he was a devoted amateur artist. In 1898, together with his friend, the Alsatian patriot, , and the artist,

Charles Spindler Charles Spindler (11 March 1865 in Bœrsch – 3 March 1938 in Bœrsch) was an Alsatians (people), Alsatian painter, marquetry inlayer, writer and photographer. He was also a supporter of Alsatian regionalism (politics), regionalism and founded se ...

, he became involved in publishing a magazine, the ', which was issued until 1914. He provided numerous articles on the arts and culture of Alsace, and wrote several books on the subject. He and Spindler also created the "", an artists' association, whose members included

Léon Hornecker Léon Hornecker (13 June 1864, Neuhof - 9 January 1924, Paris) was an Alsatian painter of landscapes and portraits. Life and work He showed an aptitude for artistic crafts at an early age and was apprenticed to the Ott Brothers glass-making ...

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, Joseph Sattler,

Léo Schnug Léo Schnug (17 February 1878, Strasbourg - 15 December 1933, near Brumath) was an Alsatian painter and illustrator of German ancestry.Collectif, Léo Schnug et le Haut-Kœnigsbourg, un invité au château., Strasbourg, Conseil général du Bas ...

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and

Gustave Stoskopf Gustave Stoskopf (8 July 1869 – 6 December 1944) was a French painter, playwright, poet, draughtsman and publisher from Alsace. He graduated from the Académie Julian and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He served as the directo ...

. At the outbreak of

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, he sided with France and was condemned as a traitor by the Germans. After the war, the French government made him responsible for monitoring the holdings at museums and libraries throughout Alsace. One of his first actions was to remove German-speaking staff from those institutions. He also served on the , established to determine who should be expelled from France and who should be punished as collaborators. In 1919, he was named a Knight in the

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