Lazare Escarguel

{{Short description|French politician (1816–1893)}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Lazare Escarguel | image = Lazare Escarguel (AN).jpg | caption = Lazare Escarguel | office = French Senator | term_start = 1882 | term_end = 1891 | office2 = Member of the National Assembly of France | term_start2 = 1871 | term_end2 = 1882 | office3 = Mayor of Perpignan | term_start3 = 1870 | term_end3 = 1874 | predecessor3 = Joseph Tournal | successor3 = Joseph Tournal | birth_date = {{birth date|1816|03|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = Routier, France | death_date = {{death date and age|1893|05|26|1816|03|23|df=yes}} | death_place = Routier, France | party = Republican Union }} '''Lazare Escarguel''' (1816–1893) was a French politician and newspaper editor.

==Biography== Elected as a councillor in Perpignan in 1865, Lazare Escarguel became the mayor of that city in 1870. The following year, he was elected as a member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Orientales, and was reelected in 1876, 1877 (against Colonel Falcon with 13,235 votes vs 8,276)<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Fabricio Cardenas, [https://vieuxpapierspo.blogspot.fr/2014/02/un-agent-trop-zele-rivesaltes-le-6.html Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, ''Un agent trop zélé, Rivesaltes le 6 octobre 1877''], 17 February 2014</ref> and in 1881.<ref>[https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=8222 National Assembly biography]</ref> Escarguel is then elected as a senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 1882 to 1891.<ref>[https://www.senat.fr/senateur-3eme-republique/escarguel_lazare1096r3.html Senate biography]</ref> He finally retired in his birth town, where he died in 1893 of apoplexy.

Lazare Escarguel was also a founding member of the newspaper ''L'Indépendant'' for its second start in 1868.

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