Jules Auguste Lemire (April 23, 1853 – March 7, 1928),

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priest and social reformer, was born at

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Life

He was educated at th
college of St Francis of Assisi

Hazebrouck Hazebrouck (, , , ) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France. It was a small market town in Flanders until it became an important railway junction in the 1860s. West Flemish was the usual language until 1880, when French was taught ...

, where he subsequently taught

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and

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. In 1897 he was elected deputy for Hazebrouck and was returned unopposed at the elections of 1898, 1902 and 1906. He organized a society called ''La Ligue française du coin de terre et du foyer'', the object of which was to secure, at the expense of the state, a piece of land for every French family desirous of possessing one. The abbé Lemire sat in the chamber of deputies as a conservative republican and

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. He protested in 1893 against the action of the Dupuy cabinet in closing the

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, characterizing it as the expression of a policy of disdain of the workers. In December 1893 he was seriously injured by the bomb thrown by the anarchist Vaillant from the gallery of the chamber.

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