Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac

Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac.

Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac (born August 12, 1806 in Avéron-Bergelle , Département Gers , † January 31, 1880 in Couloumé-Mondebat , Département Gers) was a French publicist, journalist, historian and politician.

Granier de Cassagnac came to Paris in 1832, where he made a name for himself as a journalist in newspapers in various directions for the unrestrained audacity of his language and incurred many disputes and lawsuits. While he had been a zealous and well-paid defender of the Orléans dynasty before 1848, he joined Napoléon III after their overthrow . and became a passionate Bonapartist, demanded the rescue of France through a coup d'état and showered the Orléans with insults.

From 1852 to 1870 he was a representative of his home department in the legislative body, in which he belonged to the group of the so-called Arcadians , and editor of various newspapers, notably des Pays . Malicious polemics, ultra-conservative and absolutist principles, trials and duels made his name known, if not respected.

After Napoleon's fall in 1870, he lived nearby in Wilhelmshöhe and then in Brussels and after the peace in 1871 returned to Paris, where he first published the Pays again, then founded L'Ordre and took an outstanding part in the Bonapartist intrigues. In 1876 he was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies and died on January 31, 1880 at his castle in Couloumé.

In addition to his journalistic work, Granier has also published several major historical works:

• Histoire des classes ouvrières et des classes bourgeoises (1837)
  • History of the working and bourgeois classes . Reprint d. Edition Braunschweig, Westermann, 1839. Olms, Hildesheim / New York, ISBN 3-487-06333-6
• Histoire des classes nobles et des classes anoblies (1840),
• Histoire des causes de la Révolution Française (1850, 4 vols .; 2nd ed. 1856),
• Histoire du Directoire (first in the features section of the Constitutionnel ; 1851–63, 3 vols., Specially edited),
• Histoire de la chute du roi Louis Philippe, de la republique de 1848 et du retablissement de l'empire (1857, 2 vols.),
• Histoire des Girondins et des massacres de Septembre d'après les documents officiels et inédits (1860, 2 vol .; 2nd edition 1862),
• Histoire des origines de la langue française (1872),
• Histoire populaire illustrée de l'empereur Napoléon III (1875),
• Histoire de la troisième republique (1876) and
• Condamnation du duc d'orléans (1890).

They are nothing but well-written improvisations in which the liveliness of the presentation makes one ignore the often inadequate research on sources and the partiality of the view. Granier also produced two novels: Danaè (1840) and La rein des prairies (1845, 2nd edition 1859) as well as a description of his Voyage aux Antilles françaises (1844, 2 vols.) And Souvenirs du second Empire (1879–1883, 3 vols.).

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