Auguste Dide

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Auguste Dide (4 April 1839, Vézénobres-16 March 1918, Nice) was a French Protestant pastor and politician of the extreme left during the Third Republic.

During the Second Empire he was exiled to Switzerland, but he returned to France after an amnesty, and continued his theological studies in Strasbourg. He then became a pastor, in Gard and then in Paris.[1]

He was senator for Gard from 1885 to 1889.[2]

He was part of a group responsible for creating a statue of Michael Servetus

References[edit]

  1. ^ André Encrevé, « Les protestants à Paris à la fin du XIX e siècle (1882-1907) », Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français (1903-2015), vol. 154, 2008, p. 351–382
  2. ^ https://www.senat.fr/senateurs-3eme-republique/sen3Rcir.html#c300