François Descostes (21 March 1846 – 24 August 1908) was a

Savoy Savoy (; )  is a cultural-historical region in the Western Alps. Situated on the cultural boundary between Occitania and Piedmont, the area extends from Lake Geneva in the north to the Dauphiné in the south and west and to the Aosta Vall ...

ard writer, lawyer, and politician.

Biography

François Descostes, son of Joseph Descostes and Hortense de Livet, was born in Rumilly in 1846. In 1866, after finishing law school, he settled as a lawyer in

Chambéry Chambéry (, , ; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Savoie Departments of France, department in the southeastern ...

, the capital of the Duchy of Savoy. Descostes was elected in 1873 to the Academy of Savoy, where he became president (from 1886 to 1887 and then from 1900 to 1908). He was a recognized authority on

Joseph de Maistre Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One of the forefathers of conservatism, Maistre advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immedi ...

.Sorrel, Christian (2002). ''Les Catholiques Savoyards: Histoire du diocèse de Chambéry (1890-1940).'' Le Bovet: La Fontaine de Siloé, pp. 127–130. He was also winner of the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

's Thérouane prize.

Works

* ''Trois jours en Savoie'' (1877) * ''La Petite France et la Grande France'' (1886) * ''Joseph de Maistre avant la Révolution: Souvenirs de la Société d'autrefois, 1753-1793'' (2 vol., 1893) * ''Joseph de Maistre Orateur'' (1896) * ''La Révolution Française vue de l'Étranger 1789-1799, Mallet du Pan à Berne & à Londres'' (with a preface by Charles-Albert Costa de Beauregard, 1897) * ''Des Alpes au Niger. Souvenirs d'un marsouin'' (with a preface by

Ernest Daudet Louis-Marie Ernest Daudet (; 31 May 1837 – 21 August 1921) was a French journalist, novelist and historian. Prolific in several genres, Daudet began his career writing for magazines and provincial newspapers all over France. His younger brothe ...

, 1898) * ''Les Émigrés en Savoie et dans le Pays de Vaud, 1790-1800'' (1903)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Descostes, Francois 1846 births 1908 deaths People from Rumilly, Haute-Savoie People from the Kingdom of Sardinia 19th-century French politicians 19th-century French writers 19th-century French historians French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War

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