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| | Buisson, Ferdinand |
 | | Ferdinand Edouard Buisson (December 20, 1841-February 16, 1932), «the world's most persistent pacifist», was born in Paris, the son of a Protestant judge of the St.Etienne Tribunal. |
 | | For his ardent partisanship of pacifist, Radical-Socialist, anticlerical views he was vilified by journalists, attacked by clerics and conservative scholars, forced from public office by political slander, and even, at the age of eighty-seven, severely caned by a group of student protesters who disrupted a pacifist meeting at which he was speaking. |
 | | Buisson attended the Collège d'Argentan and the Lycée St.-Etienne but left school at the age of sixteen to help support the family when his father died. |
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