“ PELLETAN, CHARLES CAMILLE (1846– ) , French politician and journalist, was born in Paris on the 28th of June 1846, the son of Eugene Pelletan (1813–1884) , a writer of some distinction and a noted opponent of the Second Empire. Camille Pelletan was educated in Paris, passed as licentiate in laws, and was qualified as an “archivist paléographe.” At the age of twenty he became an active contributor to the press, and a bitter critic of the Imperial Government. ”