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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: French Life Senators, Paul Broca, Paul Doumer, Hippolyte Carnot, Agenor Bardoux, Raymond Poincare, Jules Simon, Senator for life, Jules Ferry, Emile Littre, Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, Marcellin Berthelot, Alexandre Millerand, Henri Dupuy de Lome, Leon Bourgeois, Jules Armand Dufaure, Gaston Doumergue, Jules Barthelemy-Saint-Hilaire, Leon Say, Armand Fallieres, Adolphe Cremieux, Antoine Chanzy, Victor Schoelcher, Pierre Tirard, Paul Deschanel, Albert Francois Lebrun, Charles Humbert, Felix Dupanloup, Henri-Auguste Loze, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Henri-Alexandre Wallon, Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes, Raoul Peret, Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier, Ferdinand Barrot, Edouard Rene de Laboulaye, Joseph Chaumie, Bernard Jaureguiberry, Louis Buffet, Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines, John Lemoinne, Joseph d'Haussonville, Georges Bruguier, Alexandre Bachelet, Victor Lefranc, Pierre de Chambrun, Antonin Dubost, Alfred Mezieres, Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer, Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier, Auguste Casimir-Perier, Charles Ferry, Pierre Chaumie, Jean Odin, Rene Berenger, Emile Bender, Pierre Lanfrey, Ernest Picard, Edmond de Pressense, Eugene Pelletan, Emile Deschanel, Justin de Selves, Emile Deshayes de Marcere, Theodore Drouhet. Excerpt: A senator for life is a member of the senate or equivalent upper chamber of a legislature who has life tenure. As of 2010, 6 Italian Senators out of 321, 4 out of the 47 Burundian Senators and all members of the British House of Lords have lifetime tenure apart from the 26 Lords Spiritual appointed until retirement at the age of 70. Several South American countries once granted lifetime membership to former presidents but have since abolished the practice. In Italy, a senatore a vita is a member of the Italian Senate appointed by the President of the Italian Republic "for outstanding patriotic meri...