Alexandre Glais-Bizoin, a French politician, born at Quintin, department of C6tes-du-Nord, March 9, 1800. He acquired prominence as an opposition member of the chamber under Louis Philippe. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected to the constituent assembly, but owing to his hostility to Louis Napoleon soon withdrew from political life. In 1863, however, he again became conspicuous as a representative by his incessant and eccentric interruption of the debates, and by almost invariably opposing the measures of the government. In the elections of 1869 he was defeated in his native department, but was returned in one of the metropolitan districts. On Sept. 4, 1870, he became a member of the government of national defence without portfolio, and subsequently represented it with Cremieux at Tours. The charges of embezzlement brought against him by the press he strenuously denied, declaring he had sacrificed his fortune in the public service. He was imprisoned by the commune in May, and after its downfall he was arrested by the authorities of Versailles, but immediately released.

He is the author of several plays, and in 1868 became director of a democratic weekly journal, La Tribune frangaise.