Antonin Dubost

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Antonin Dubost (1910)

Henri-Antoine Dubost , called Antonin Dubost (born April 6, 1842 in L'Arbresle , † April 16, 1921 in Paris ), was a French politician. From 1906 to 1920 he was President of the French Senate .

Live and act

Second Empire and Franco-German War

Dubost first worked as a clerk in a law firm in Lyon and then settled in Paris, where he became secretary to the republican politician François-Désiré Bancel . As a Republican in the Second Empire , Dubost worked for the opposition newspapers Courrier français and La Marseillaise . On September 4, 1870, one day after the abdication of Napoleon III. in the Franco-Prussian War , Jules Favre and Léon Gambetta proclaimed the republic. Gambetta, who took over the office of interior minister, appointed Antonin Dubost as general secretary of the police prefecture of Paris that same day . During the siege of Paris left Dubost on 18 October 1870, the city on the military mission with one of the well for the Balloonmail used gas tanks . On January 3, 1871, he was appointed prefect of the Orne department and tried to defend the Département capital Alençon against German troops. Two months later he submitted his resignation.

MP and Minister in the Third Republic

In 1878 Dubost became mayor of La Tour-du-Pin in the Isère department and remained in that office for 43 years. After La Tour-du-Pin he became acquainted with the rich widow Français, nee. Couturier, whom he married in 1879.

In 1879 he was called back to Paris, first on February 7, 1879 as head of cabinet in the Ministry of Justice, then as Conseiller d'État .

In December 1880, Dubost moved into the Chamber of Deputies as a representative of the Isère department . He held that mandate for 16 years until he resigned it in favor of a seat in the Senate in 1897.

From December 3, 1893 to May 30, 1894 he was briefly Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Jean Casimir-Perier .

Senator and Senate President

In January 1897, Dubost stood in the Isère department for election to the Senate and was elected in the first ballot. In the Senate he belonged to the Gauche radicale faction and later to the radical socialist faction. His work there focused on financial, budget and economic matters.

On February 16, 1906, he was elected as the successor to Armand Fallières without a candidate for Senate President and was consistently re-elected in this office until 1920. In January 1920 he was re-elected Senator, but lost to Léon Bourgeois in the election for Senate presidency in the second ballot .

Antonin Dubost died on April 16, 1921 at the age of 79 in Paris. His successor and competitor for the chairmanship of the Senate, Léon Bourgeois, announced the death of Dubost to the House on the same day and praised him as a “republican of the first hour” and “ardent patriot” who spent his “entire life in defense dedicated to the Republic and the Fatherland ”.

Works

  • Les suspects (1858)
  • Des conditions du Gouvernement en France (1875)
  • Danton et la politique contemporaine (1880)
  • La situation actuelle et le régime parlementaire (1889)
  • Danton et les massacres de septembre (1884)

literature

  • Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français . Volume II: Cay – Fes . Bourloton, Paris 1890, p. 428 ( digitized on Gallica ).
  • Jean Jolly: Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français . tape 4 : D , 1966.
  • Eugen Weber : The Nationalist Revival in France, 1905-1914 . University of California Press, 1959, pp. 223 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Anciens sénateurs IIIème République: DUBOST Antonin. French Senate , November 20, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 (in French, with biographical information from Robert & Cougny and Jolly).
  2. ^ A b Bernard Isnard: Antonin Dubost - Homme politique 1844–1921. Amis du Vieil Arbresle, accessed December 7, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Dubost, Antonin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dubost, Henri-Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH L'Arbresle , France
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1921
Place of death Paris , France