Adrien Étienne Pierre, comte de Gasparin (June 29, 1783 in Orange, Vaucluse – September 7, 1862 in Orange, Vaucluse) was a French statesman and agriculturist.

Biography

He entered the army, but was soon compelled by illness to give up military life. After the revolution of 1830 he was made successively prefect of the departments of

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and Isère, and in 1831 of

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. For his promptness in suppressing an insurrection at

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s in 1834, he was raised to the peerage. He became

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in 1836, and gave his attention especially to prison reforms and the establishment of hospitals. He occupied the same position in the short-lived cabinet of March 1839. In 1848 he accepted the management of the national agricultural institute at

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. The institute was abolished in 1852.

Literary works

He published a large number of papers and several extended works on agricultural subjects, the principal of which is ''Cours d'agriculture'' (5 vols., Paris, 1843–49).

Family

His father Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin was a military officer in the French Revolutionary army and a member of the Committee of Public Safety. His son

Agénor de Gasparin Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 – 4 May 1871) was a French politician, statesman and author. He was also an early Parapsychology, psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping. Biography He was bor ...

was a noted politician and author, who emigrated to

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