1772), retired cavalry squadron leader, Knight of Saint-Louis and Officer of the Legion of Honour, and Anne Antoinette Gouget (b.

Alfred Gaulier was educated at the Prytanée National Militaire in La Flèche, a preparatory school for boys planning a military career.

[3] He was brought before a board of inquiry for habitual misconduct and lack of honour, and Marshal Bernard Pierre Magnan suspended him from employment.

[2] During the electoral assemblies of May 1869 Gaulier noted in Le Temps that if a crowd formed the police were as much responsible as the organizers,[5] Then let policemen gather, all alone, as yesterday evening on Boulevard Sébastopol.

[2] La Politique, the organ of the Paris League of Rights, was first suppressed by the Commune and then by the Versaille government, whose excesses he condemned.

[4] Gaulier's short political career began after Ernest Roche was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for participating in the organization of 1886 miner's strikes in Anzin.

[6] Henri Rochefort resigned from his seat as a deputy, triggering a by-election in which the socialists combined to nominate Roche as their candidate.

[8][4] According to The Living Age, M. Roche and M. Duc-Quercy were arrested on the charge of having wittingly disseminated false information for the purpose of stirring up the workmen.

Alter a scandalous trial, in the course of which M. Laguerre, a deputy, and the reporter of the Budget for Justice, insulted the procurator of the republic in open court, the accused were sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment.

The initial result of the sentence was to make M. Roche a candidate at the Parliamentary election of the 2nd of May; and the government was summoned to release him from prison in order that he might appear on the hustings.

ventured to present himself; and the contest was limited to two journalists of the twelfth rank, and of almost equally extravagant opinions, M. Gaulier and M. Roche.

He voted against the indefinite postponement of revision to the constitution, against prosecution of three members of the Ligue des Patriotes and against the draft Lisbonne law restricting the freedom of the press.