THIERS

Louis, the French statesman, was born in 1797, and died in 1877. He took up political literature in 1821, and a isted Carrel and Mignet in founding " The National ” and during the Revolution of 1830 his office was; the headquarters of the Revolutionists. In 1840 he was head of the ministry for a few months, and after the Revolution of 1848 voted for the presidency of Louis Napoleon, but was banished in 1851. During the crisis of 1870-71 he showed himself to be the one really great man in France, and after the fall of Paris was made President. He had to draw up the treaty of peace, to suppre the Communist insurrection at the lo of Alsace and Lorraine, and to pay the indemnity.