Edouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye

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Edouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye

Édouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye (born January 18, 1811 in Paris ; † May 25, 1883 ibid) was a French lawyer, publicist, journalist and politician of the Third Republic . In 1865 he gave the impulse to give the United States of America the Statue of Liberty .

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Laboulaye worked as a lawyer in Paris from 1842. In 1849 he was appointed professor of law at the Collège de France ; In 1873 he took over its management.

Member of the National Assembly since 1871 , Laboulaye was the leader of the left center and campaigned for the consolidation of the Third Republic. In 1875 he became a member of the Senate for life as a senator .

Laboulaye was an admirer of the United States as early as the Second Empire and wrote a three-volume work on its political system. As an opponent of slavery he supported the American Civil War , the northern states . After their victory, in 1865, in a conversation with his friend, sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi , he first launched the idea that France should participate in a memorial to the independence of the USA. In 1875, now president of the newly founded French-American Society, he called for donations to give the USA a symbol of freedom as a gift for the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Bartholdi finally created the statue, whose installation in New York in 1886 Laboulaye himself no longer lived.

Laboulaye had been a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres since 1845 , and its president in 1878. The city of Laboulaye in the Argentine province of Córdoba and the Place Édouard de Laboulaye , a square in Versailles , France , are named after him.

literature

  • Frédéric Passy: Édouard Laboulaye: conférence faite à la Société du travail. ed. Guillaumin, Paris 1884 ( digitized version )
  • Walter Dennis Gray: Interpreting American democracy in France: the career of Édouard Laboulaye, 1811–1883. University of Delaware Press, Newark 1994
  • Magda Moiola: Il pensiero politico di Édouard Laboulaye , Università degli Studi di Pavia - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, 1998.
  • Marc Kirsch: Un portrait d'Édouard Laboulaye (1811-1883). In: La lettre du Collège de France, n ° 26, juin 2009 ( online resource ; also in English )

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SURNAME Laboulaye, Édouard René Lefebvre de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, publicist, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1883
Place of death Paris