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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Henry Labouchere (1831–1912)

Labouchere, Henry (lä-bö-shãr’). An English journalist and politician; born in London, 1831; died on Jan. 15, 1912. He was in the diplomatic service part of the time at Washington, and a member of Parliament. An advanced republican, he used Truth, the journal established by him in 1876, as a society and political organ for the promulgation of his ideas, often getting into serious difficulties. He wrote ‘Diary of a Besieged Resident in Paris’ (1871).