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Jan 20, 1830 Strasbourg, France Died on 21 Oct 1914 (aged 84)
French historian
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About Auguste Laugel
- Antoine-Auguste Laugel (20 January 1830 – 1914) was a French historian and engineer born in Strasbourg. He received his education at the École polytechnique in Paris, and for a period of time was secretary and confidant to the Duke of Aumale.
- Later he was appointed director of the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), a French railway company. He published articles in various journals such as the Revue des Deux Mondes, where he penned an important account of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1860.
- He was the author of numerous historical and philosophical works.
