Ollivier
OLIVIER ÉMILE, French statesman; born in Marseilles, France, July 2, 1825, and, having studied law at Paris, began to practice as an advocate in that city. By clever pleading he established a reputation at the bar, and after 1864 acquired influence as a member of the Legislative Assembly. In 1865 the V Viceroy of Egypt ap appointed him to a high high juridical office in that country. But he still took an active interest in French politics, and in January, 1870, Napoleon III. charged him to form a constitutional ministry. Ollivier was an unsuspecting tool in the hands of the Imperialists. "With a light heart" he rushed his country into the war with Germany, himself to be overthrown, after the first battle, on August 9. He withdrew to Italy. Ollivier wrote books on "Lamartine" (1874), and "Thiers" (1879), and "The Church and the State to the Council of the Vatican" (1879); "Principles and Conduct" (1875); "The Liberal Regime," "Michel Ango" (1892); "L'Empire Liberal," 6 vols. (1894-1908).
He died in 1913.