Arthur Dillon (1834–1922)
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Arthur Dillon (or comte Dillon) (1834, Paris - 1922) was a French cavalry officer and journalist, and friend of général Boulanger. He was the grandson of General Arthur Dillon (1750-1794), descended from a family of exiled Irish Jacobites.
He was secretary-general of the transatlantic cable company and a financier of Boulangisme. His election as a deputy in 1889 was invalidated. He and the Bonapartist Georges Thiébaud launched a vast journalistic campaign in Boulanger's favour.
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- Biographies Assemblée nationale (1889-1940) [1]
Categories:
- 1834 births
- 1922 deaths
- Politicians from Paris
- Members of the 5th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic
- French journalists
- 19th-century French military personnel
- French male non-fiction writers