Pierre Paul Guieysse


PierrePaul Guieysse, was a French Socialist politician. He was Minister of the Colonies in the French Cabinet headed by Lon Bourgeois between 1895 and 1896.

He was born in Lorient, Brittany, of a Protestant family. He trained as a hydrographic engineer, working for the navy, but developed scholarly and political interests, becoming a specialist in Egyptology and being active in leftist politics. In May 1900 he cofounded the newspaper La Dpche de Lorient.

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