Lazare Escarguel

Lazare Escarguel (1816–1893) was a French politician and newspaper editor.

Biography
Elected as a councillor in Perpignan in 1865, Lazare Escarguel became the mayor of that city in 1870. The following year, he was elected as a member of the National Assembly for Pyrénées-Orientales, and was reelected in 1876, 1877 (against Colonel Falcon with 13,235 votes vs 8,276) and in 1881. Escarguel is then elected as a senator for Pyrénées-Orientales from 1882 to 1891. He finally retired in his birth town, where he died in 1893 of apoplexy.

Lazare Escarguel was also a founding member of the newspaper L'Indépendant for its second start in 1868.