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Rateau Proposal
Jean-Pierre Lamotte-Rateau (24 April 1800 – 22 March 1887) was a French lawyer and politician who represented the department of Charente in the Constituent Assembly and then the Legislature during the French Second Republic. He is known as author of the Rateau proposal to dissolve the Constituent Assembly before all the organic laws had been passed, this preventing any reduction in the powers of the President Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Early years (1800–48) Jean-Pierre Lamotte-Rateau was born on 24 April 1800 in Aubeterre, Charente. He studied law and obtained a degree at the Faculty of Paris in 1820. He joined the bar in Bordeaux on 10 December 1821, and became known as a strong speaker. He became involved in politics. He supported the government of Louis-Philippe, but sided with the dynastic opposition in asking for electoral reform to add capabilities. Under this program he was appointed a member of the General Council of Gironde. Second Republic (1848–51) After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubeterre-sur-Dronne
Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (, literally ''Aubeterre on Dronne''; oc, Aubaterra or ''Aubaterra de Drona''), commonly referred to as Aubeterre, is a commune in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. In 2017, it had a population of 386. Its inhabitants are known as ''Aubeterriens'' (masculine) or ''Aubeterriennes'' (feminine). Located on the river Dronne, on the departmental border with Dordogne, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne has been officially listed as " One of the most beautiful villages in France" since 1993. It is well known for its Church of Saint Jean, an underground, Monolithic church. Geography Aubeterre-sur-Dronne is located in the extreme southeast of the Charente department some 42 km (26 mi) south of Angoulême, 14 km (8.6 mi) east of Chalais and 16 km (9.9 mi) west by northwest of Ribérac. The entire eastern border is the Dronne river which is the boundary between the Charente and Dordogne departments. Access ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. Elected to the presidency of the Second Republic in 1848, he seized power by force in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be reelected; he later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. He founded the Second Empire, reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia and its allies at the Battle of Sedan in 1870. Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French overseas empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and engaged in the Second Italian War of Independence as well as the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Lanjuinais
Victor Ambroise Lanjuinais (5 November 1802 – 1 January 1869) was a French politician. He was a deputy from 1838 to 1848, and minister of Agriculture and Commerce in the second cabinet of Odilon Barrot (2 June 1849 to 31 October 1849). Monarchy Victor Ambroise, vicomte de Lanjuinais, was born in Paris on 5 November 1802. His father was Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais (1753–1827). His brother was Paul-Eugène Lanjuinais (1799–1812 ), a peer of France. Victor Lanjuinais studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a friend of Gustave d'Eichthal, an author who was sympathetic to Africans and advocated mixed marriages to produce offspring with the complementary qualities of the black and white races. When John Stuart Mill visited Paris in 1830 he spent much time with Lanjuinais and Eichthal, finding the views of these young men refreshing and encouraging. Lanjuinais edited a multi-volume collection of the works of his father, and contributed a biographical preface to the work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Favre
Jules Claude Gabriel Favre (21 March 1809 – 20 January 1880) was a French statesman and lawyer. After the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans in the National Assembly. Early years He was born in Lyon, and began his career as a lawyer. From the time of the Revolution of 1830, he openly declared himself a republican, and in political trials he took the opportunity to express this opinion. After the Revolution of 1848 he was elected deputy for Lyon to the Constituent Assembly, where he sat among the Moderate Republicans, voting against the socialists. When Louis Napoleon was elected President of France, Favre openly opposed him, and on 2 December 1851 he tried with Victor Hugo and others to organize armed resistance in the streets of Paris. After the ''coup d'état'', he withdrew from politics, returned to the legal profession, and distinguished himself by his defence of Felice Orsini, the perpetra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu De Combarel De Leyval
Mathieu Jean Louis Désiré de Combarel de Leyval (11 February 1808 – 24 April 1869) was a French landowner and politician. He was a member of the National Assembly during the July Monarchy and the French Second Republic. Early years (1808–48) Mathieu Jean Louis Désiré de Combarel de Leyval was born on 11 February 1808 in Le Vernet-Sainte-Marguerite, Puy-de-Dôme. His parents were Hippolyte de Combarel de Gibanel, owner of La Reynerie (died 1848) and Antoinette Françoise Hippolyte Dauphine de Leyval (died 1839). His maternal uncle was a former deputy of Puy-de-Dôme. Combarel de Leyval inherited property, entered politics at an early age and was elected to the General Council of Puy-de-Dôme. Under the July Monarchy on 2 March 1839 Combarel de Leyval was elected Deputy of the 4th college (Riom) of Puy-de-Dôme. He sat with the center left, and generally voted for the government. He was reelected on 9 July 1842 by 146 votes out of 191, and on 1 August 1846 by 137 votes out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time. His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (1831) and ''Les Misérables'' (1862). In France, Hugo is renowned for his poetry collections, such as (''The Contemplations'') and (''The Legend of the Ages''). Hugo was at the forefront of the Romanticism, Romantic literary movement with his play ''Cromwell (play), Cromwell'' and drama ''Hernani (drama), Hernani''. Many of his works have inspired music, both during his lifetime and after his death, including the opera ''Rigoletto'' and the musicals ''Les Misérables (musical), Les Misérables'' and ''Notre-Dame de Paris (musical), Notre-Dame de Paris''. He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Fresneau
Armand Félix Fresneau (5 January 1823 – 13 November 1900) was a French politician. He was a deputy in the French Second Republic and again in the French Third Republic, and then was a Senator until his death. He was a right-wing supporter of the Catholic Church and of the Bourbon pretenders to the throne of France. Life Monarchy (1823–48) Armand Félix Fresneau was born in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, on 5 January 1823. His parents were René Fresneau (1789–1855), a departmental prefect, and Amélie Jambin (–1864). His father was Prefect of Corsica under the government of the July Monarchy. He studied at Rennes. In 1847 due to his father's influence he became the private secretary of Tanneguy Duchâtel, the Minister of the Interior. He expected to pursue a career in diplomacy. Second Republic (1848–51) With the February Revolution of 1848 Fresneau began an active career in politics with the support of the clergy and the Conservative party. He was elected to the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Chadenet
Félix Jean-Baptiste Chadenet (7 April 1798 – 24 September 1874) was a French lawyer, civil servant and politician who twice represented the department of Meuse in the legislature. He had right wing views and supported Prince Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III) before and after the 1851 coup that established the Second French Empire. Early years (1798–1848) Félix Jean-Baptiste Chadenet was born on 7 April 1798 in Verdun, Meuse. His parents were Jean Baptiste Chadenet (1771–1848) and Marie Boudet (1778–1856). He studied law in Paris, and became a lawyer in Verdun during the Bourbon Restoration. He married Marie Françoise Hebert (born 1805). Their children included Baron Henri Chadenet (1828–1908) and Baron Félix Chadenet (1831–1922). Félix Chadenet belonged to the liberal opposition to the regime, which triumphed in the July Revolution of 1830. He became bâtonnier of the Verdun bar, and a member of the Meuse General Council. Second Republic (1848–51) After the Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Joseph Ducoux
François Joseph Ducoux (11 September 1808 – 23 March 1873) was a French physician, left-wing politician and businessman. He served as a military physician from 1828 to 1838 before settling in Blois and engaging in local politics. He was a representative in the National Assembly during the French Second Republic, and as Prefect of the Paris Police helped restore order after the bloody June Days uprising. He introduced legislation to establish the Bourse du Travail (labour exchange), but this was rejected. He left politics during the Second French Empire, but was again a representative in the National Assembly in the first years of the French Third Republic. Life Early years (1808–48) François Joseph Ducoux was born on 11 September 1808 in Châteauponsac, Haute-Vienne. He studied medicine in Paris and was among the most enthusiastic of the liberal youth in the Latin Quarter under the Bourbon Restoration. He wrote a poem that attacked the Jesuits, ''Epitre'', signed with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoléon Joseph Curial
Napoléon Joseph Curial (9 January 1809 – 22 September 1861) was a French peer and politician. Early years (1809–48) Napoléon Joseph Curial was born in Paris on 9 January 1809. His family originated in Savoy. His parents were Count Philibert Jean-Baptiste François Joseph Curial (1774–1829) and Clémentine Amélie Beugnot (1788–1840). His father was a general in the First French Empire and earned a well deserved reputation in the battles of Austerlitz, Eylau, Friedland and Essling. Under the Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbon Restoration his father was named a Peer of France. He died in 1829 after falling from a horse. Napoléon Joseph Curial was admitted as a page to King Louis XVIII of France, then at the age of 16 entered the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr. Two years later he left the school in 1827 as a second lieutenant in the mounted grenadiers of the royal guard. He served with distinction in the invasion of Algiers in 1830, where he earned promoti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odilon Barrot
Camille Hyacinthe Odilon Barrot (; 19 July 1791 – 6 August 1873) was a French politician who was briefly head of the council of ministers under President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1848–49. Early life Barrot was born at Villefort, Lozère. He belonged to a legal family, his father, an advocate of Toulouse, having been a member of the Convention who had voted against the death of Louis XVI. Odilon Barrot's earliest recollections were of the October insurrection of 1795. He was sent to the military school of Saint-Cyr, but later moved to the Lycee Napoleon to study law and was called to the Parisian bar in 1811. He married the granddaughter of the liberal politician Guillaume-Xavier Labbey de Pompières (1751–1831). He was the brother of Adolphe Barrot and Ferdinand Barrot. He was placed in the office of the politician Jean Mailhe, who was advocate before the council of state and the court of cassation and was proscribed at the second restoration. Barrot eventually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Forbes René De Montalembert
Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (; 15 April 1810, in London – 13 March 1870, in Paris) was a French publicist, historian and Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres, and a prominent representative of liberal Catholicism. Family Charles Forbes René de Montalembert who was born on 15 April 1810, was of French and Scots ancestry. His father, Marc René, belonged to the family of Angoumois, which could trace its descent back to the 13th century, while charters show the history of the house even two centuries earlier. For several generations the family had been distinguished, both in the army and in the field of science. Montalembert senior had fought under Condé, and subsequently served in the British army. He married Eliza Rose Forbes, whose father, James Forbes, belonged to a very old Scottish Protestant family. Charles, their eldest son, was born in London. At the French Restoration of 1814, Marc René returned to France, was raised to the peerage in 1820, and became ambas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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