Ferdinand Lelièvre (7 November 1799 – 24 January 1885) was a French lawyer and colonial landowner who became Senator of the Algiers department of Algeria from 1876 to 1885.
[3] After the February Revolution of 1848 Lelièvre declared himself colonel of the National Guard of Nancy in 1848 and became the main editor of the Republican journal Le Travail.
[5] The general security law of 27 February 1858 followed the attack by Felice Orsini on 14 January 1858 on the opera in which 12 people died.
A letter from him dated 14 September 1858 to the prefect of Meurthe asked for his son and his faithful governess to be allowed to join him, using cheap tickets from Nancy to Marseille.
He explained that his son would continue his studies at the newly opened medical school in Algiers, and would submit his thesis in Montpellier.
[1] After the fall of the empire Lelièvre was a member of the Republican Committee of Algiers, as were Georges Tillier and Romuald Vuillermoz, who had also been deported in 1858.
[4] After the decree making indigenous Algerian Jews citizens of France, Lelièvre tried to stem the resulting wave of antisemitism.
[1] On 7 February 1882 Lelièvre, then aged 84, was granted a pension of 800 francs under a law giving assistance to victims of the 2 December 1851 coup.