Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac
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Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac (August 12, 1806— January 31, 1880) was a French journalist and politician.
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Born in Avéron-Bergelle, département of Gers, he began his career as a Parisian journalist in 1832, contributing defences of Romanticism and Conservatism to the Revue de Paris, the Journal des Débats, and to La Presse. Then he founded a political journal, L'Epoque (1845-1848), and his violent polemics in support of François Guizot brought him notoriety and many few duels.
In 1851, in the Constitutionnel, he declared himself openly an advocate of the French Empire, and in 1852 was elected as official candidate by the départment of Gers to the Second Republic's National Assembly. As journalist and deputy he actively supported an absolutist policy, and also demanded the restoration of Roman Catholicism as state religion, 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 Liberal deputies of having received money from Wilhelm I of Prussia 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 (September 4, 1870), Granier de Cassagnac fled to Belgium, 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. He died on his castle Couloumé.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Granier de Cassagnac, Adolphe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Granier de Cassagnac, Bernard Adolphe |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | french historian and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12 August 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Avéron Bergelle, Département Gers |
| DATE OF DEATH | 31 January 1880 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Couloumé-Mondebat, Département Gers |
