1. Louis Pierre Hippolyte Ricard was a wealthy French lawyer and liberal politician.
24 Facts About Louis Ricard
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Louis Ricard is best known for steering through the 1898 law on workplace accidents.
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Louis Pierre Hippolyte Ricard was born on 17 March 1839 in Caen, Calvados.
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Louis Ricard's father was Paul Urban Ricard, a Caen hosiery manufacturer, and his mother was Marie-Caroline Rossignol.
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Louis Ricard grew up in a comfortable and rather conservative Catholic home.
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Louis Ricard studied law in Paris and joined the bar of Rouen in 1861.
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Louis Ricard became well known in the Rouen Court of Appeal.
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In 1864, Ricard married Annette Gratienne Lesueur, a Protestant, daughter of a cotton manufacturer and niece of a major manufacturer of chemical products.
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Louis Ricard's wife brought him a large dowry, and introduced him to what were then advanced political and social views.
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Louis Ricard became an anti-clerical Republican, and gradually moved towards a very liberal Protestantism.
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On 13 November 1881, Louis Ricard was elected to the municipal council on the Left list, and three days later was appointed mayor.
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Louis Ricard was elected to the general council of the department in 1882 for the fourth canton of Rouen.
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Louis Ricard was a moderate Republican who later moved toward radicalism.
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Louis Ricard resigned his municipal offices on 8 January 1886 when he entered the Chamber.
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Louis Ricard was succeeded as mayor of Rouen in 1886 by Maurice Lebon.
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Louis Ricard did not run in the general election of 1889, but when the deputy for the first district of Rouen died he ran in the by-election of 1 December 1889 and won in the first round.
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Louis Ricard was reelected in the first round for the same constituency on 20 August 1893 and 8 May 1898.
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Louis Ricard sat with the Progressive Republican Left in the Chamber.
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Louis Ricard became Minister of Justice and Religious Affairs when the cabinet of Emile Loubet was formed on 29 February 1892, and held office until 6 December 1892.
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Louis Ricard was again Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Leon Bourgeois from 1 November 1895 to 29 April 1896.
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Louis Ricard is best known as principal rapporteur of the law on workplace accidents on 1898.
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Louis Ricard unexpectedly lost the legislative election of 27 April 1902.
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Louis Ricard was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1903 by General Andre.
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Louis Ricard died on 2 March 1921 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, aged 81.