Auguste Casimir-Perier

Auguste Casimir-Perier

Auguste Victor Laurent Casimir-Perier (born August 20, 1811 in Paris , † June 6, 1876 ​​there ) was a French diplomat and statesman .

Life

Auguste Casimir Victor Laurent Périer (he changed his family name to Casimir-Perier in 1874) was the eldest son of the French politician Casimir Pierre Périer . He embarked on a diplomatic career, became legation secretary in London in 1831 , in Brussels in 1833 and in The Hague in 1836 , then in Naples in 1839 and in Saint Petersburg in 1841 and finally in Hanover in 1843 . In April 1846 he was appointed Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor .

Périer joined the Chamber of Deputies in August 1846 as a member of the Paris Chamber of Deputies , where he had his seat with the center-right parties, but after the February Revolution of 1848 he withdrew to his estates in the Aube department . As a representative of this department, he was elected to the Legislative National Assembly in May 1849. He always voted with the majority and in 1850 came to the Permanent Commission. In October 1850 he traveled to Claremont to see Louis Napoléon , later protested against Napoleon's coup d'état of December 2, 1851, although he had been favorably disposed to him, and was therefore imprisoned for a few days. Since then he has devoted himself to agricultural undertakings. During this period he also published a number of treatises on economics such as Les finances de l'Empire (1861), La situation financière en 1863 (1863), Les finances et la politique (1863) and Les sociétés de coopération (1864).

In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War , Périer was arrested by the Prussians following a false denunciation, taken hostage to Reims and released after the armistice. In February 1871 he was elected to the National Assembly. He belonged to the moderate republican party of the direction of Adolphe Thiers and on October 11, 1871, after the death of Félix Lambrecht, he took over the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior, which he resigned on February 6, 1872. From May 18 to 25, 1873, he was briefly interior minister again. On December 10, 1875, he was elected Senator for life and died on June 6, 1876 at the age of 64 in Paris.

literature

• Auguste Casimir-Perier . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 12, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 845.