Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette

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Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette

Jean Louis Victor Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette (born April 8, 1820 in Paris , † August 15, 1874 there ) was a French statesman of the Second Empire .

Life

Jean Louis Victor Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette was the son of a Paris justice of the peace and a half-brother of Marshal Saint-Arnaud . He studied law in Paris, was enrolled as a lawyer at the royal court there in 1841 and a doctorate in law in 1846. Until the coup d'état of Napoleon III. (December 2, 1851), in which he took part, he played only an insignificant role. Then he made a career. He was among other things from 1852 to 1867 member of the General Council of the Gironde department and seven times its president. In addition, in January 1852 he was rapporteur in the Council of State, then government commissioner at the Section for Disputes, then Director of Forestry in Bordeaux , in 1857 Director General of Imperial Forests and in 1859 Director General of Customs and Tax Administration with the title of Council of State.

On November 26, 1860, Forcade La Roquette rose to succeed Pierre Magnes as Minister of Finance. He gave in to the wishes of Emperor Napoleon III to be able to dispose of the public funds arbitrarily, so that the pending debt soon grew to an astonishing amount. Therefore, on November 14, 1861, Achille Fould replaced him as finance minister , he was appointed senator and commissioned with various broadcasts, namely to Algeria , in order to investigate various colonization and trade issues. On October 18, 1863 he was appointed Vice President of the Council of State and on April 2, 1864 as Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor . On January 20, 1867, reappointed to the cabinet newly formed by Eugène Rouher , he took over the portfolio of agriculture, public works and trade and in this position was often faced with violent attacks from the opposition on questions relating to public works, the railways, etc. exposed.

Forcade La Roquette exchanged his portfolio on December 17, 1868 after the resignation of Ernest Pinard with the Ministry of the Interior. In the latter capacity, he initiated many lawsuits against the press and, in order to influence the upcoming elections in a way that was advantageous for the government, arbitrarily redesigned the boundaries of the electoral districts, so that several local councils, especially in Bordeaux, resigned. He himself defended his behavior before the Legislative Body and tried to justify the system of official candidacy and the political intervention of the government officials who distributed the ballot papers. In the elections of May 1869, he did everything possible to get the official candidates through.

Although Forcade La Roquette joined the other ministers' resignation on July 12, when the emperor announced in an embassy the approval of liberal reforms, he joined the newly formed cabinet on July 17, remaining in his post as interior minister. Although he was now more tolerant of the press than before, he fought against the parliamentary and, in some cases, democratic demands made in the Senate by Prince Napoleon on September 1, 1869, when he was deliberating on the Senate Consult. He then spoke in the legislative body on December 9, 1869 in a liberal sense, without giving up the right of official candidacy. However, when the emperor went even further in his concessions to the constitutional middle party, Forcade La Roquette and his colleagues submitted their dismissal on December 27, 1869. Chevandier de Valdrôme succeeded Forcade La Roquette as Interior Minister in the new cabinet led by Émile Ollivier .

Soon afterwards, Forcade La Roquette gave up his Senate seat and was elected MP on January 10, 1870 from the second constituency of the Lot-et-Garonne department . Together with Pinard and Jérôme David, he was leader of the right, zealously defending free trade, and on August 12, 1870, reported on the incorporation of the Mobile Guard into the active army. After the fall of the Empire (September 4, 1870), he withdrew to the Gironde. Because of his previous official activities, Léon Gambetta was prosecuted with an arrest warrant, he went to Spain and stayed in San Sebastian during the remainder of the Franco-Prussian War . After the war he returned to France. On October 20, 1872, he unsuccessfully applied for a deputy in the National Assembly , got involved in various financial ventures, saw himself threatened with significant losses and evaded the resulting problems on August 15, 1874 by suicide.

Fonts

  • Défense du traité de commerce avec l'Angleterre , 1872
  • Nouveaux traités de commerce et la loi sur les matières premières , 1873

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SURNAME Forcade La Roquette, Adolphe de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forcade La Roquette, Jean Louis Victor Adolphe de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French statesman
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1874
Place of death Paris