Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac (12 August 180631 January 1880) was a French journalist and politician.

Biography

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'' of Gers, to gentleman glassmaker Pierre-Paul Granier de Cassagnac (1771-?) and Ursule ( Lissagaray; 1775-1850), from 1818 to 1828 he lived with the family of his mother's brother, Laurent Prosper Lissagaray, whose son, Prosper-Olivier, was a journalist.Lissagaray, la plume et l'épée, René Bidouze, Les Éditions Ouvrières, 1991, pp. 14-5 He began his career as a Parisian journalist in 1832, contributing defences of

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and

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to the ''

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'', the ''

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'', and to '' La Presse''. Then he founded a political journal, ''L'Epoque'' (1845–1848), and his violent

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s in support of

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brought him notoriety and some

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s. In 1851, in ''

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'', he declared himself openly an advocate of the

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, and in 1852 was elected as official candidate by the ''

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'' of Gers to the Second Republic's

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. As journalist and deputy he actively supported an absolutist policy, and also demanded the restoration of

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, opposed the laws in favor of the press, and was a member of the club of the ''rue de l'Arcade'' - the political allies of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. In March 1868 he accused the

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deputies of having received money from

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for opposing Bonaparte, and, when called upon for proof, submitted only false or trivial documents. After the Empire's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the proclamation of the Third Republic (4 September 1870), Granier de Cassagnac fled to

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, and returned to France for the elections of 1876, and was elected deputy. He continued to combat all the republican reforms, but without electoral success.

Family

In 1841 he married Rosa de Beaupin de Beauvalon, daughter of a wealthy Creole planter; his son

Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac (1843, Paris1904, Saint-Viâtre) was the son of Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac and Rosa de Beaupin de Beauvalon, and while still young associated with his father in both politics and journalism. In 1 ...

followed in his footsteps as a belligerent journalist.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Granier de Cassagnac, Adolphe 1806 births 1880 deaths People from Gers French nobility Politicians from Occitania (administrative region) Appel au peuple Members of the 1st Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Members of the 2nd Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Members of the 3rd Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Members of the 4th Corps législatif of the Second French Empire Members of the 1st Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic Members of the 2nd Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic 19th-century French journalists French male journalists 19th-century male writers