Achille Tenaille de Vaulabelle (28 October 1799 – 27 March 1879) was a French journalist and politician.
Early years
The family of Tenaille de Vaulabelle originated in
Clamecy, Nièvre
Clamecy () is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France.
Clamecy is the capital of an arrondissement in the department of Nièvre, at the confluence of the Yonne and Beuvron and on the Canal du Nivernais, N.N.E. of Nevers.
Clame ...
, and became one of the main families of
Châtel-Censoir
Châtel-Censoir () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
See also
*Communes of the Yonne department
The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne department of France.
The commu ...
.
Jean-Baptiste Tenaille de Vaulabelle was killed by the crowd while defending the queen Marie-Antoinette in Versailles.
Achille de Vaulabelle was his nephew. and
Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle his brother.
Achille Tenaille de Vaulabelle was born in
Châtel-Censoir
Châtel-Censoir () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
See also
*Communes of the Yonne department
The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne department of France.
The commu ...
, Yonne, on 28 October 1799.
He joined the administration under the
Bourbon Restoration as an attaché to the cabinet of the office of the Prefect of the Yonne.
He then went to Paris and became a journalist.
In 1824 he published ''
Le Nain jaune'' (Yellow Dwarf) and founded the liberal newspaper ''Pour et le Contre'' (Pro and Con).
After the
July Revolution
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (french: révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or ("Three Glorious ays), was a second French Revolution after the first in 1789. It led to the overthrow of King ...
this became the ''Révolution de 1830''.
He was chief editor of the ''Messager''.
He worked at the ''National'' in 1838.
He published the ''Modern history of Egypt'' (1835) and ''History of the Restorations'' (1844).
The eight volumes of his ''Histoire des deux Restaurations'' (1844-1874), covering the Bourbon restoration in France 1814-1830, met with immediate and permanent success. His large history has been the most widely read study of the Restoration, and provided the facts used by most textbooks and popular accounts. His style is elegant, lively, with anecdotes, dialogues, and quotations. Long passages from key documents are included. His hatred of the monarchy shapes every chapter.
Second Republic
After the
February Revolution,
Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (; 21 October 179028 February 1869), was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France. ...
offered Vaulabelle the embassy in London, then that in Berlin, which he refused.
On 23 April 1848 he was elected to represent Yonne in the Constituent Assembly.
He was a member of the Constitution Committee and chair of the Committee of Public Instruction.
On 6 July 1848 he was appointed Minister of Public Instruction.
Vaulabelle reorganized the inspections service and gave more importance to the study of history and modern languages.
Vaulabelle resigned on 13 October 1848.
After the presidential election of 10 December 1848 he joined the opposition.
He was not re-elected to the Legislative Assembly and left politics.
He devoted the rest of his life to his historical works.
He died in
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...
, Alpes-Maritimes, on 27 March 1879.
Works
* ''1815, Ligny-Waterloo, par A. de Vaulabelle,... 40 gravures par J. Worms, d'après les documents authent, undated,112p., Garnier frères, Paris
* ''Campagne et bataille de Waterloo, d'après de nouveaux renseignemens et des documens complètement iné, 1845, 219p., Perrotin, Paris
* ''École d'administration.
Charles X
Charles X (born Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Lou ...
, en 1830, précédée d'un Précis historique, 1844-1854, 7vol., Perrotin (1ère édition), Paris
* ''Histoire des deux Restaurations jusqu'à l'avènement de Louis-Philippe, de janvier 1813 à octobre 1830, 1855-1856, 8vol., Perrotin (3ème édition), Paris
* ''Histoire scientifique et militaire de l’expédition française en Égypte, précédée d’une introduction présentant un tableau de l’Égypte ancienne et moderne'', dédié au roi, avec Louis Reybaud, 10 vol., Paris, 1836
* ''Le retour de l'île d'Elbe, 1873, 93p., Lachaud et Burdin, Paris
* ''Nouveau système de haras, présenté par les éditeurs du Journal des haras, à M. le Ministre de l'Int, 1830, 22p., impr. de Decourchant, Paris
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tenaille de Vaulabelle, Achille
1799 births
1879 deaths
People from Yonne
Politicians from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Moderate Republicans (France)
French Ministers of Public Education and Religious Affairs
Members of the 1848 Constituent Assembly
19th-century French journalists
French male journalists
19th-century French male writers