Lucien Arman (23 November 1811 – 7 October 1873) was a French

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and politician. He owned the

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and served as a member of the

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Life

Following in the footsteps of his father, Jean-Léonard Arman, he studied mathematics and received a diploma as a shipbuilder. He became a partner in the family shipyard producing merchant ships and warships for the French and Imperial Russian Navies. Arman invented a method for

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using iron and wood for steam-powered ships and was awarded a great medal in the naval and military arts category at the Exposition Universelle of 1855. He was elected as a member of the Bordeaux Gironde

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by his fellow businessmen. Arman was elected a municipal counselor and then as a General Councilor of the Gironde from the Canton of Cadillac in 1854. Friendly with

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, he was easily elected as the government candidate in the

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. Arman was elected to the ''Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux'' in 1859. The Emperor and

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attended the wedding of his son, Albert Arman, to Léontine Lippmann in the Tuileries Chapel. He was reelected in the

1863 French legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in France on 21 and 22 June 1863, with a second round on 5 and 6 July.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p673 Pro-government candidates won a majority of seats.

and was appointed as a

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of the

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the next year. After heavily investing in a new shipyard and

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factory near

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,de Saint Hubert, p. 6 the over-extended Arman went bankrupt in 1868 and resigned from all of his public offices the following year. He died in Bordeaux in 1873 and is buried in the Cimetière de la Chartreuse.

Family

Albert and Léontine adopted the surname Arman de Caillavet and were the parents of the playwright Gaston Arman et Caillavet.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arman, Lucien 1811 births 1873 deaths Businesspeople from Bordeaux French naval architects Members of the 2nd Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Members of the 3rd Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur Politicians from Bordeaux