GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC, h. 1840 or '41. He began when quite young to write for newspapers, and soon became noted for the fierceness of his personal attacks on his contemporaries and the duels to which such attacks often led. In 1866, under the patronage of his father, he joined the editorial staff of Le Pays, an influential jour nal of Paris, and not long after became the principal editor. From that period to the present he has pursued a course so aggressive as to be in an almost continuous series of quarrels, particularly with editors and writers of the anti-Bonapartist side. One of his several encounters was with Gustave Flourens in 1869. In 1868 Louis Napoleon gave Cassagnac the decoration of the legion of honor, and the next year he became member of the general council for Gers. In the German war he served as a volunteer in the zouaves, was captured at Sedan, and kept a prisoner in Silesia for eight months. When
free he resided for a time in Vienna, then went to Gers and established Pcuple, a violent political journal. In 1872 he resumed his chair as editor of Le Pays, but within a brief period he was again in a dnel (with M. Lockroy), for which he got a week's imprisonment and a fine of 100 francs.' In 1873 he fought M. Ranc, a journal ist, when Ranc was disabled and Cassagnac was slightly wounded. In 1874 he was tried for printing articles calculated to disturb the peace, on which occasion he con ducted his defense in person and was acquitted, an event looked upon by the imperial ists as a signal triumph. In 1874 he violently criticised gen. Wimpffen for the surrender of Sedan. The officer prosecuted for libel, but the editor was acquitted. In 1876 and 1877.he was returned to the national assembly for Gers.