KELLER, EMILE, count. — French Catholic politician, b. in Belfort on 8 October 1828, d. in Paris on 20 February 1909. He was a deputy in Parliament for the Haut-Rhin (1859) and, after the cession of Alsace, for the Belfort constituency (1871).
He was a tenacious supporter of the temporal power of the popes and therefore strongly criticized imperial policy in Italy. After the act of 16 May 1876, he was one of the 158 right-wing deputies who supported the Broglie ministry. He was a social pioneer with his work L'encyclique du 8 déc. 1864 et les principes de 1789, which was to inspire De Mun and La Tour-du-Pin. He also wrote a Histoire de France (2 vols., Paris 1858) and Le gén. Lamoricière, sa vie militaire, politique et religieuse (2 vols., there 1873). In 1889 he withdrew from public life.