Arthur Dillon (or comte Dillon) (1834,

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– 1922) was a French cavalry officer and journalist, and friend of général Boulanger. He was the grandson of General Arthur Dillon (1750-1794), descended from a family of exiled Irish Jacobites. He was secretary-general of the transatlantic cable company and a financier of Boulangisme. His election as a deputy in 1889 was invalidated. He and the

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Georges Thiébaud launched a vast journalistic campaign in Boulanger's favour.

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* Biographies Assemblée nationale (1889–1940

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dillon, Arthur 1834 births 1922 deaths French people of Irish descent Politicians from Paris Members of the 5th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic French journalists 19th-century French military personnel French male non-fiction writers