Lonis Antoine Garnier-Pages, a French politician, born in Marseilles, July 18, 1803.While employed as a merchandise broker in Paris he found time to attend the sittings of the secret associations which aided in the revolution of July, 1830, and in which his elder brother Etienne Joseph Louis (1801-'41) acted an important part. In 1842 he was elected to the chamber of deputies, and became at once one of the stanchest members of the opposition, and in 1847 was one of the most active promoters of the reform agitation. He was conspicuous among those who in February, 1848, appeared at the banquet of Paris, in spite of the prohibition of the government. On Feb. 24 he was appointed a member of the provisional government, then mayor of Paris, and on March 5 he succeeded M. Goudchaux as minister of finance. He decreed as such the unpopular additional tax of 45 centimes, which greatly contributed toward the overthrow of the republic. As a member of the constituent assembly, he submitted a remarkable report on the financial situation, and in May left the finance department to enter the executive commission of five appointed by the assembly.

On the insurrection of June this commission had to resign its power to Gen. Cavaignac; and Garnier-Pages, after the expiration of his term as deputy, rendered unpopular by the tax of 45 centimes, was not reelected. The democratic party nominated him again in 1857, but he was defeated by Emile Ollivier. In 1864 he became a member of the corps legislatif, and devoted his labors specially to questions of finance and foreign relations. At the downfall of the empire in 1870 he was one of the deputies sent to the hotel de ville, and was installed a member of the government of national defence. At the elections of Feb. 8, 1871, he failed to gain a seat, and retired to private life. He has published Un episode de la revolution de 1848, Vimpot des 45 centimes (1850); Histoire de la revolution de 1848 (8 vols. 8vo, 1860-62); a continuation, entitled L'Histoire de la commission executive (Paris, 1869); and in December, 1873, the completion of the work.