Charles de Rémusat
Charles François Marie de Rémusat (born March 14, 1797 in Paris , † June 4, 1875 there ) was a French politician and philosopher .
His father Auguste-Laurent de Rémusat was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte and later prefect of the Haute-Garonne and Nord departments . His mother, Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, comtesse de Rémusat, was the court lady of the Empress Joséphine .
Charles de Rémusat studied law and became a lawyer in 1819. However, he did not practice this profession very much, instead publishing various philosophical and political writings over the next ten years. He wrote for the magazines Tablettes , Courrier français , Revue des Deux-Mondes and Globe . After the July Revolution , it was elected to the National Assembly for the constituency of Muret , Haute-Garonne , on October 28, 1830 . He held this position until 1851. He initially joined the doctrinaires under Guizot , but later converted to the left center.
In 1836 he held the position of Undersecretary of State for the Interior for some time. He was Interior Minister in Adolphe Thiers' cabinet from March to October 1840. After the resignation of this government, he joined the dynastic opposition.
On January 8, 1846 he became a member of the Académie française .
He was expelled from France because of his protest against the coup d'état of December 2, 1851 . He went to Brussels , but received permission to return in September 1852. During the time of the Second Empire he stayed away from politics and devoted himself to the history of philosophy. In 1867 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .
In the Third Republic , he turned down the post of ambassador in Vienna. In August 1871 he was then appointed Foreign Minister by his old friend Adolphe Thiers , but without being a member of parliament . In 1873 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In a by-election in 1873, he ran unsuccessfully in Paris. His defeat led to the overthrow of the Thiers government on May 23, 1873. But in October 1873 he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in a by-election in the Haute-Garonne department and retained his seat there until his death on June 6, 1875.
In philosophy, Charles de Rémusat was a spiritualist from the school of Victor Cousin . Politically, he was first a doctrinaire and then a liberal, a friend of Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard , Adolphe Thiers and Guizot .
Works
- Éssais de philosophie (Paris 1842, 2 vol.), To which he owed his exception to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences;
- Abélard (1845, 2 vols.) And
- De la philosophie allemande (1846), as a result of which he became a member of the French Academy;
- Saint Anselme de Cantorbéry (1853, 2nd ed. 1868);
- L'Angleterre au XVIII. siècle (1856, 2 vols.);
- Critiques et études littéraires (2nd ed. 1857);
- Bacon, sa vie, son temps, sa philosophie (1857, 2nd ed. 1858);
- Politique liberale, ou fragments pour servir à la defense de la Révolution française (1860, 2nd ed. 1875);
- Channing, sa vie et ses oeuvres (1857, 2nd ed. 1862);
- Philosophy religieuse. De la theologie naturelle en France et en Angleterre (1864);
- "Lord Herbert de Cherbury (1874);
- Histoire de la philosophie en Angleterre depuis Bacon jusqu'à Locke "(1875, 2 vols.).
Two dramas were published from his estate: Abélard (1877) and La Saint-Barthélemy "(1878), as well as the Correspondance pendant les premières années de la Restauration (1883–1887, 6 vols.).
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 2, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rémusat, Charles de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rémusat, Charles Francois Marie de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French politician and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1875 |
| Place of death | Paris |