[2] The orator Francois Mauguin, who inspired the charter of July 1830 and was deputy of Beaune from 1827 to 1851, was his uncle.

[2] Mauguin ran for election as Republican candidate for the legislature on 21 August 1881 in the 2nd district of Algiers.

He was elected by 3,596 votes against 2,675 for the outgoing member François Joseph Gastu(fr).

He sat with the Republican majority, supported government policy, and voted for reinstatement of the district poll, for the draft Lisbonne law restricting freedom of the press, and for the Senate procedure against General Boulanger.

[1] The printing house was passed down from father to son until it was taken over by his great-granddaughter, Chantal Lefèvre, after her return from Spain to Algeria in 1993.