LEDRAIN, 16-drati', Engine, French archeologist: b. Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne, 1844; d. Paris, 1910. He was educated for the priesthood but devoted. himself to researches in Oriental archeology. He was for many years a curator in the department of Oriental antiquities at the Louvre and also served as a professor in the Ecole du Louvre. He was author of
grand seigneur feudal dant la moyenne Egypte) (1876); (Les momies
egyptiennes ornies de portraits peintS sur pen neaux) (1877);
' andre Auguste, French political agitator: b. near Paris, France, 2 Feb. 1807; d. aux-Roses, France, 31 Dec. 1874, Admitted to the bar in 1830, he became prominent in the' defense of Republican journalists' men of similar views in the reign of Louis Philippe,.
and later as a democratic agitator and leader of the workingmen's party. On the: inettealt bf the.Revolution of 1848 he becamo ate the provisional government as Minister of the Interior, and in May was one of the five in whose hands the Constituent Assembly placed the interim government. But he offended everyone by his arbitrary conduct, and resigned. He was a candidate for the Presidency against Louis Napoleon in the following December, but was ignominiously beaten. An unsuccess ful attempt to provoke an insurrection against his rival put an end, to his influence, and for the next 20 years he lived alternately in Lon don and Brussels, being amnestied only in 1870. After his return to France he was elected to the Assembly in 1871, and again in 1874.