SIMON

sULES FRANGOIS (181496), Fr. politician and philosopher; b. Lorient; lectured on philosophy at Sorbonne, Paris, 1839-51; entered National A embly, 1848; member of Legislative A embly, 1863; Minister of Education, 1870; Academician, 1875; Prime Minister, 1876-77; wrote Le Devoir, Le Travail, and other works,