Simon
Simon names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Simon JULES FRANCOIS, a French statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JULES FRANCOIS, a French statesman; born in Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, Dec. 27, 1814; was a disciple of Victor Cousin, the great French philosopher, and when 25 years of age succeeded him in the chair of philosophy at the Sorbonne. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected to the assembly from the Côtes-du-Nord, taking a seat with the Moderate Left. In March, 1849, he was elected to the Council of State, and resigned his seat as deputy in April, to devote himself to lectures and the editing of "La Liberté de Penser." In 1863 he was elected to the Corps Législatif, where he served till the fall of the empire, when he was placed with Thiers and Gambetta at the head of the provisional government, whose affairs he administered during the siege. From the conclusion of peace in 1871 till the fall of Thiers he was prominent in the Assembly at Bordeaux and at Versailles, and in 1875 was elected a life senator. He was the senior representative of France at the Labor Congress of Berlin convoked by the Emperor William II.; was made permanent secretary of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1882, and from 1875 was a member of the French Academy. He died in Paris, France, June 8, 1896.
Simon SIR JOHN (Allsebrook)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR JOHN (Allsebrook), a British lawyer and public official; born in 1873. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Wadham College, Oxford, and and was president of the Oxford Union Society in 1896. He became one SIR JOHN SIMON of the counsel for the British Government in the Alaska Boundary Arbitration in 1903, and chairman of of the Departmental Committee on Street Trading in 1909. In 1910 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace and solicitor-general in 1910-13; attorneygeneral, 1913-15; home secretary, 1915- France, 16; major in the air force in Fr 1917-18.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Jules Simon's entry is complete: he died in 1896 and nothing since has altered the record of his career. Sir John Simon, however, was only 47 and mid-career when Collier's wrote in 1921, and the entry stops at his wartime service in the air force. He went on to chair the Simon Commission on India (1927-30), serve as Foreign Secretary from 1931 to 1935, Home Secretary again 1935-37, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1937-40 and Lord Chancellor 1940-45 -- one of very few men to hold all four of the great offices of state. Created Viscount Simon in 1940, he died in 1954, and his reputation is now bound up with the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain government he served.
Written for this edition, 2026.