Paul Luc Olivier Bluysen (10 April 1861 – 10 September 1928) was a French journalist and politician.

[3] On 2 March 1895 Alfred Le Chatelier fought a duel at the Moulin Rouge restaurant in Neuilly with Harry Alis (Léon Hippolyte Percher), editor of the Journal des débats.

[4] The duel was fought with swords over a charge that Le Châtelier had made that Alis might be compromised with Belgian interests in Africa.

[5] Bluysen was helpful to many French people in India, and in 1898 was persuaded to run for election as deputy for Pondicherry.

In 1901 Bluysen left the Journal des Débats and became owner and director of the Correspondance républicaine libérale.

In 1906 he became director of the Annuaire de la presse française et étrangère et du monde politique.

At this time he was elected syndic of the Paris press and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

[7] Acting governor Ernest Fernand Lévecque sent a telegram to the Colonial Ministry on 24 April 1910 giving the first results.

He was rapporteur on the proposed Statute of Colonial Banks in 1911 and on Works to be Undertaken in French India in 1912.

[2] Bluysen won reelection on 26 April 1914 by a large majority through the support of Senator Étienne Flandin and of many European, Creole and Hindu councilors.