Émile Flourens

Émile Flourens.

Léopold Émile Flourens (born April 27, 1841 , † January 7, 1920 in Paris ) was a French lawyer and politician. From December 13, 1886 to April 4, 1888 he was Foreign Minister of his country in the governments of Goblet , Rouvier (1st) and Tirard (1st) .

Life

Émile was the son of the physician, MP and later couple of France Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens and the daughter general Aline Adolphine Gabrielle, née Clément d'Aerzen. His older brother was Gustave Flourens , his younger brother the later professor Pierre Abel Flourens. After attending the Lycée Charlemagne and studying law , he worked from 1863 as a legal clerk at the Council of State , the highest French administrative court. In 1868 he left the civil service for political reasons and became a lawyer in Paris. After the fall of Napoleon III. he returned to the Council of State as a lecturer council . From 1874 Florens also taught public law at the École libre des sciences politiques . In the same year he married Benjamine Marie Camille Michelle Michel-Chevalier, a daughter of the entrepreneur and Senator Michel Chevalier . In 1877 Flourens moved up on the one hand to the Council of State , i. H. as judge at the administrative court and on the other hand he was appointed director general of the culture in the Ministry of the Interior. When in 1885 he also became president of the section for legislation in the field of justice and the foreign ministries in the State Council and president of the committee for the affairs of the protectorates in the foreign ministry, he gave up the office in the interior ministry.

His marriage gave birth to four daughters and two sons, of whom the youngest daughter later became the grandmother of Front National politician Bruno Gollnisch . After the election defeat in 1906, Flourens withdrew into private life, but published several articles and essays on political issues in the following years.

Political career

In December 1886 René Goblet appointed the experienced administrative lawyer to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he pursued a cautiously cautious policy that brought him into conflict with the Minister of War, Georges Boulanger , several times . B. during the Schnäbele affair . He also remained Foreign Minister in the following two cabinets. He tried to get closer to the Russian Empire and to neutralize the Suez Canal , but this failed due to the resistance of Great Britain . When the government was reshuffled again in April 1888, it was no longer taken into account. In February 1888 Flourens was first elected to the French Chamber of Deputies for the Hautes-Alpes department , to which he was a member until May 1898 and then again for Paris from April 1902 to May 1906. He stayed there for a long time with the left-liberal Républicains progressistes , the mandate from 1902 to 1906 he held for the Patriot League and in 1912 he became a member of the Action française .

Others

Flourens was a staunch opponent of Freemasonry and co-founded the local history research society Société d'études des Hautes-Alpes . In August 1876 he became a cavalier and in July 1880 an officer of the Legion of Honor .

Web links

• E. Flourens on the French Parliament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry Emile, Léopold Flourens on the website of the French National Assembly , accessed on July 15, 2016.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Jean-Marie Mayeur: Les parlementaires de la Seine sous la Troisième République: Etudes. Pp. 247-249. Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 1981, ISBN 978-2-85944-432-7 .
3. ↑ Relationships according to Geneanet.org , accessed on July 15, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles de Freycinet	Foreign Minister of France December 13, 1886 to April 4, 1888	René Goblet