Désiré Barodet

Claude-Désiré Barodet (27 July 1823 – 28 April 1906) was a French Radical Republican politician.

He also attended a republican club, the Cercle de la Ruche where he met Jacques-Louis Hénon.

He had to resign this office when the National Assembly, by a special law of 4 April 1873, abolished the central mairie of Lyon and subordinated the municipal authorities to the government because of their radical tendencies.

[1] The Radical party then nominated him as their candidate in a by-election in Paris against moderate Republican Charles de Rémusat, and Barodet won a victory on 27 April that saw Thiers overthrown as the legitimists in the Assembly used him as an occasion taken to give Thiers a vote of no confidence.

In 1877, he was the author of the first bill on free, compulsory and secular primary education, taken up by Jules Ferry in 1882.