Antide Boyer was a French manual worker, Provencal dialect writer and journalist from the south of France who became a socialist deputy.
23 Facts About Antide Boyer
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Antide Boyer supported strikes and was involved in the fight for workers' rights around the turn of the 19th century.
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Antide Boyer participated as a volunteer in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
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Antoine Jean-Baptiste Boyer was born on 26 October 1850 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhone.
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Antide Boyer spent four years at the minor seminary of Marseille, where he lost his faith in Christianity.
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Antide Boyer met Pierre Maziere at the seminary, who later wrote under the nom-de-plume Peire Simoun.
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Antide Boyer worked for the Chemins de fer de Paris a Lyon et a la Mediterranee, then at the La Ciotat shipyards, and then ran a wholesale oil and soap store with his first wife.
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Antide Boyer was one of the founders of the Bouches-du-Rhone Socialist Party.
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Antide Boyer called it a society of mutual admiration, and mocked its ceremonies.
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Antide Boyer wrote for Provencal dialect publications under no less than 37 noms de plume.
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Antide Boyer abstained on 4 April 1889 from the vote on prosecuting General Boulanger.
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Antide Boyer was reelected in the second round for the 5th district of Marseille in the general elections of 22 September and 6 October 1889.
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Antide Boyer joined several special committees, including one responsible for examining proposed laws on freedom of association.
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Antide Boyer was active in debates on the match monopoly, May Day demonstrations and subsequent strikes, industrial working conditions of women, children and underage girls, improved primary education, the May Day demonstration of 1891, and many other issues.
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Around 1890 Antide Boyer directed the socialist workers' paper Le Combat, which was published at the same address as La Revue socialiste.
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Antide Boyer was reelected in the first round on 20 August 1893.
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Antide Boyer was compromised by Leopold Emile Aron in the Panama scandals, but was acquitted.
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Antide Boyer returned to France to run for reelection in the first round on 8 May 1898.
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Antide Boyer was reelected in the first round on 27 April 1902 for the 6th district of Marseille.
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Antide Boyer was made a member of the committees of the Navy and of Posts and Telegraphs.
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Antide Boyer was once more elected in the first round on 6 May 1906, and again joined the Navy committee.
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Antide Boyer failed to be reelected to the Senate in January 1812 and retired to Marseille.
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Antide Boyer died on 24 July 1918 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, at the age of 67.