Agénor Bardoux

Agénor Bardoux

Benjamin-Joseph-Agénor Bardoux (born January 15, 1829 in Bourges , † November 23, 1897 in Paris ) was a French statesman and writer. From December 1877 to February 1879 he was Minister of Education. In December 1882 he became an irremovable senator .

Life

Agénor Bardoux was the son of Protestant parents, studied law in Paris and became a lawyer in Clermont-Ferrand in 1856 . He occupied himself a lot with legal studies, about which he also published a number of articles. After September 4, 1870 he was appointed Maire of Clermont-Ferrand and after the Franco-Prussian War he was elected to the National Assembly on February 8, 1871 , where he voted for the peace preliminaries. He joined the left center and soon knew how to acquire a good reputation through the elegance of his speech. From March 11 to November 10, 1875 he was Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice. In the February elections of 1876 he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies and became President of the Left Center.

When the decided Republican Prime Minister Jules Simon was dismissed on May 16, 1877 and appointed a reactionary cabinet under Albert de Broglie , Bardoux was one of the leaders of the 363 who opposed the Broglie Ministry. After the chamber was dissolved, he was again elected deputy on October 14, 1877. On December 13, 1877, he joined the cabinet led by Jules Dufaure as Minister of Public Education, Culture and the Fine Arts and proposed, among other things, a law for compulsory primary education. He submitted after Mac-Mahon's resignation on February 4, 1879, his resignation, whereupon Jules Ferry succeeded him as Minister of Education.

With great determination, Bardoux stood up for the republic and liberal principles, but advocated a gentle procedure against the church and therefore introduced a counter-draft against the teaching laws of his successor Ferry in 1879, which was rejected. In July. In 1880 he applied to the Chamber of Deputies to introduce list voting. In the elections in August 1881 he was not given a mandate, but was made a permanent senator in December 1882 . In the Senate he took his place in the left center and was elected Vice President of the Senate in March 1889. He was also engaged in the study of French society since the revolutionary era . In 1890 he became a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . He died in Paris on November 23, 1897 at the age of 68.

Works

• Loin du monde , poems, 1857 (published under the pen name Agénor Brady )
• Les légistes et leur influence sur la société française , Paris 1878
• La bourgeoisie française, 1789-1848 , Paris 1880; 2nd edition 1893
• Études sociales et politiques. Le comte de Montlosier et le gallicanisme , Paris 1881
• Dix années de vie politique , Paris 1882
• Études sur la fin du XVIII ^e siècle: la comtesse de Beaumont, Pauline de Montmorin , Paris 1884
• Études sociales et littéraires. Madame de Custine, d'après des documents inédits , Paris 1888; 2nd edition 1891
• Étude d'un autre temps , Paris 1889
• Études sociales et politiques. La jeunesse de La Fayette , 1757-1792 , Paris 1892
• Études sociales et politiques. Les dernières années de La Fayette, 1792-1834 , Paris 1892
• Chateaubriand , Paris 1893
• Guizot , Paris 1894
• Études sociales et politiques. La duchesse de Duras , Paris 1898

literature

• Agénor Bardoux . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 367.
• Bardoux (Benjamin-Joseph-Agénor) . In: Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton, Gaston Cougny (eds.): Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889. Volume 1 (1889), p. 165 f.