Armand Carrel
Armand Carrel (born May 8, 1800 in Rouen , † July 24, 1836 in Saint-Mandé) was a French publicist . It gained importance in the run-up to the French July Revolution of 1830 and in the following years, u. a. as co-editor and temporary editor-in-chief of the newspaper National .
Life
Armand Carrel was born in Rouen to a wealthy merchant. He was trained as an officer in the Saint-Cyr Military School .
In 1819 he became a sub-lieutenant and joined the Minas Free Corps in Barcelona in 1823 . He was captured by French troops in Spain and sentenced to death by a court martial, but a formal error in the judgment saved him from this. He was released after a year of imprisonment.
Carrel went to Paris and joined Adolphe Thiers , François Mignet and Augustin Thierry . On Thierry's advice, he wrote a book on the history of Scotland . In 1827 there was a description of the counter-revolution in England under Charles II and Jacob II .
With Mignet, Sautelet and Thiers he became editor of the magazine National in 1830 , which soon stood at the top of all opposition journals in the run-up to the July Revolution of 1830 . After the revolution he became the first editor of this newspaper. In the following July monarchy he adhered to his republican principles under hostility and persecution, defended them in a duel against a legitimist journalist in 1833 and was sentenced to six months in prison in 1834. Even after that, he continued to advocate his political views, for example before the Chamber of Peers in the trial of Michel Ney , whereupon he was sentenced to a fine of 10,000 francs and two years in prison after the onset of tumults, and the National was persecuted and punished with great severity from then on .
After offensive attacks by Émile de Girardins , editor of the newly founded newspaper La Presse , on the National and on Carrel, there was a duel between the two on July 22, 1836. Carrel suffered an injury to which he succumbed two days later. His funeral became the occasion for a demonstration by liberals against the government.
Carrels Œuvres politiques et littéraires were later edited by Émile Littré and Paulin.
Works
- Œuvres politiques et littéraires: mises en ordre annotées et précédées d'un notice bibliographique sur l'auteur par Littré et Paulin . - 5 volumes in-8. Paris: Éditions Chamerot, 1857–1859
Web links
- Literature by and about Armand Carrel in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carrel, Armand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rouen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1836 |
| Place of death | Saint-Mandé |