Lazare Escarguel
Lazare Escarguel was a French politician and newspaper editor.Biography
Elected as a councillor in Perpignan in 1865, Lazare Escarguel becomes mayor of that city in 1870. The following year, he is elected as a member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Orientales, and is reelected in 1876, 1877 and in 1881. Escarguel is then elected as a senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 1882 to 1891. He finally retires in his birth town where he dies in 1893 of apoplexy.
Lazare Escarguel is also a founding member of the newspaper L'Indépendant for its second start in 1868.
