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Jean Joseph Louis, a celebrated French socialist and historian, was bom in 1811, at Madrid. In 1839 he published his Revue de Progres, his chief work on Socialism, which won for him great popularity among the French workmen. In 1841-44 he published his Uistorie de Lix Ans, which had a deadly effect upon the Orleans dynasty. In 1848 he became a member of the Provisional Government, and, being accused of a share in the disturbances of that year, he escaped to London. On the fall of the empire he was elected to the National A embly, and eventually was a member of the Chamber 01 Deputies. His Lettres sur VAvgleterre are very bright.