Jean Henri Georges Laguerre

Born in Paris, he was called to the bar in 1879 and distinguished himself by brilliant pleadings in favour of socialist and anarchist leaders, defending Prince Kropotkine at Lyon in 1883, and Louise Michel in the same year.

In 1886, with Alexandre Millerand as a colleague, he defended Ernest Roche and Duc Quercy, the instigators of the Decazeville strike.

He entered the Chamber of Deputies for Apt in 1883 as a representative of the extreme revisionist programme, and was one of the leaders of the Boulangist agitation.

[1] Laguerre was an excellent lecturer on the revolutionary period of French history, concerning which he had collected many valuable and rare documents.

He interested himself in the fate of the "Little Dauphin" (Louis XVII), whose supposed remains, buried at Ste Marguerite, proved to be those of a boy of fourteen.