Antoine Senard

Antoine Marie Jules Sénard (born April 9, 1800 in Rouen , † October 29, 1885 in Paris ) was a French politician. In the Second Republic he held the office of Minister of the Interior. He was a member of parliament several times.

At the age of 19, Sénard established himself as a lawyer in his native city of Rouen. In the July monarchy he went into opposition to Ludwig Philipp and organized a banquet in Rouen as part of the banquet campaign in December 1847. Appointed Attorney General of Rouen by the Provisional Government in March 1848, Sénard resigned in order to run the election for the Assemblée constituante , the constituent national assembly, on April 23, 1848. He won the election for the Seine-Inférieure department .

By non-violently suppressing workers' uprisings in Elbeuf and Rouen , he built a reputation as a man of order in parliament. On June 5, 1848 he was elected chairman of the Assemblée constituante . In the June uprising , Sénard supported Louis-Eugène Cavaignac and was then appointed French interior minister in Cavaignac's government on June 28; a day later he gave up the chairmanship of parliament. On October 13 of the same year, Sénard resigned his ministerial office and went after the election of Napoléon III. to this in opposition.

In the 1849 election to the Assemblée nationale législative , the legislative national assembly, Sénard failed and registered as a lawyer in Paris. On February 8, 1871, he ran again unsuccessfully in the elections to the National Assembly, but won the 1874 by-elections in the Seine-et-Oise department . In 1876 he refused to run in the new elections, but ran again after the dissolution of the chamber by Mac-Mahon on October 14, 1877 for the first constituency of Pontoise and was elected. He supported the republican cabinet and demanded strictly republican policies on behalf of the left. Sénard ran again in 1881, but was not re-elected.

In 1876, Senard refused to be appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor .

literature

Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny (eds.): Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789–1889 . 5th volume (PLA-ZUY). Bourloton, Paris 1891, p. 300f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Adrien Recurt	Minister of the Interior of France June 29, 1848 - October 13, 1848	Jules Dufaure

personal data
SURNAME	Senard, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sénard, Antoine Marie Jules (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rouen
DATE OF DEATH	October 29, 1885
Place of death	Paris