Lazare Escarguel

Lazare Escarguel
Lazare Escarguel
French Senator
	In office; 1882–1891
Member of the National Assembly of France
	In office; 1871–1882
Mayor of Perpignan
	In office; 1870–1874
Preceded by	Joseph Tournal
Succeeded by	Joseph Tournal
Personal details
Born	23 March 1816; Routier, France
Died	26 May 1893 (aged 77); Routier, France
Political party	Republican Union

Lazare Escarguel (1816-1893) was a French politician and newspaper editor.

Biography

Elected as a councillor in Perpignan in 1865, Lazare Escarguel becomes mayor of that city in 1870. The following year, he is elected as a member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Orientales, and is reelected in 1876, 1877 (against Colonel Falcon with 13 235 votes against 8 276)^[1] and in 1881.^[2] Escarguel is then elected as a senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 1882 to 1891.^[3] He finally retires in his birth town where he dies in 1893 of apoplexy.

Lazare Escarguel is also a founding member of the newspaper L'Indépendant for its second start in 1868.

References

^ Template:Fr Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Un agent trop zélé, Rivesaltes le 6 octobre 1877, 17 february 2014
^ National Assembly biography
^ Senate biography

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[1] Template:Fr Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Un agent trop zélé, Rivesaltes le 6 octobre 1877, 17 february 2014

[2] National Assembly biography

[3] Senate biography

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