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Édouard Lockroy
Édouard Lockroy (18 July 183822 November 1913) was a French politician.
He was born in Paris, the son of Joseph Philippe Simon (1803–1891), an actor and dramatist who took the name of Lockroy.
Revolutionary years.
He had begun by studying art, but in 1860 enlisted as a volunteer under Garibaldi. The next three years were spent in Syria as secretary to Ernest Renan, and on his return to Paris he embarked in militant journalism against the Second French Empire in "Le
administrator of the Comédie-Française.
Lockroy married Antoinette Stephanie, the daughter of the revolutionary writer Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris. She published two books of her own, "Contes à mes nièces" (Tales for my nieces, 1868) and "Les Fées de la famille" (Household fairies, 1886). Their son was the journalist and politician Édouard Lockroy.
Lockroy died in Paris.
Works.
- "Un mariage corse", a vaudeville comedy in one act by Narcisse Fournier,