Charles-Paulin-Roger Saubert de Larcy

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Charles-Paulin-Roger Saubert de Larcy

Baron Charles-Paulin-Roger Saubert de Larcy (born August 20, 1805 in Le Vigan (Gard) , † October 6 or November 8, 1882 in Pierrelatte ) was a French statesman. He belonged to the right-wing, royalist-minded parliamentary group in the National Assembly and supported the elevation of the Count of Chambord, Henri d'Artois , grandson of King Charles X , to the position of French monarch. These efforts finally failed in 1873. Larcy served from February 1871 to December 1872 and from November 1873 to May 1874 as Minister of Public Works. In December 1877 he became a senator for life.

Life

Early career

Charles-Paulin-Roger Saubert de Larcy, son of a sub-prefect during the Restoration period , studied law after attending the Collège Henri IV. In Paris , where he became an attorney in 1826, an auxiliary member of the upper court in 1827 ( Juge auditeur ) and in 1829 deputy to the royal prosecutor in Alais . After the July Revolution of 1830 he resigned himself, devoted himself to the lawyer again and distinguished himself in this profession with brilliant eloquence and sharp judgment, especially in political trials. His pamphlet La Révolution de la France (Paris 1831), in which he expressed clearly legitimist views, led Chateaubriand to congratulate him.

In 1833 Larcy became a member of the General Council of the Gard department , which he held until 1851. On March 4, 1839, he was sent by the voters of Montpellier to the Chamber of Deputies, in which, after his re-election on July 9, 1842, he also sat for the following legislative period. With Berryer he led the legitimist party and on the extreme right he incessantly fought against the Guizot Ministry . In December 1843 he was among the five deputies who made a pilgrimage to the Earl of Chambord in Belgrave Square in London to express their recognition as a pretender to the French throne. For this purpose, Guizot called him, like his colleagues, “branded”. He therefore submitted his dismissal at the beginning of 1844, but was immediately re-elected to the Chamber on March 2 of that year and remained in it. In 1845 he spoke out against compensation from the British consul of Tahiti , George Pritchard , who had been expelled from the island by the French. On August 1, 1846, Larcy's candidacy, which the Prefect Roulleaux-Dugage opposed on instructions from the government, failed . When Larcy had then obtained the majority of votes in the first ballot in partial elections on February 24, 1848 in Montpellier, news of the end of the rule of the "citizen king" Louis-Philippe I by the February Revolution arrived on the same day , leading to the proclamation of the second Republic led. Therefore, Larcy's choice was ineffective.

Career during the Second Republic and the rule of Napoleon III.

In the political creed that Larcy made on April 23, 1848 as a candidate for the constituent assembly, he calmly accepted the establishment of the republic. His constant opposition had made him very popular, so that the departments of Hérault and Gard elected him to the Constituent Assembly ; he accepted for Gard, the fourth of ten chosen. Larcy eagerly participated in the discussions of the meeting, voting with the right and declaring ardent monarchists. So he voted, among other things. against the exile of the members of the House of Orléans , for the prosecution of Louis Blanc and Marc Caussidière , against the right to work , for the new constitution, against the reduction of the salt tax , for the proposal by Rateau (the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly and the election of a new one legislative assembly), against a general amnesty, for the ban on political clubs and for the credits for the expedition to Rome.

Larcy followed the same political line after he was elected to the legislature on May 13, 1849 as representative of the Gard department. He opposed republican institutions, advocated Alfred de Falloux's education law, which provided for more Catholic influence in schools, and supported all reactionary measures proposed and accepted by the majority. Among other things, he spoke out in favor of the electoral law of May 31, 1850, which reduced the number of voters by a third, but tried to improve it and advocated the revision of the constitution. But he was by no means inclined to accept the private policy of President Napoleon III. to serve. After the coup of Napoleon III. on December 2, 1851, he was among the deputies who protested against it in the assembly of the 10th arrondissement, and in 1853 he withdrew grudgingly into private life.

On August 21, 1864, Larcy appeared in the third constituency of the Gard department as an opposition candidate for elections to the legislative body, but was subject to the government candidate Fabre . After this became Attorney General, Larcy ran for Fabre's vacant seat in parliament, but lost again in the April 2, 1868 election, this time to Ernest Charles Jean-Baptiste Dumas . As the general elections of 1869 approached, he took part in the election campaign and a private meeting held at his place in Alais attracted much attention; he suffered persecution, had to pay a fine (October and November 1868) and failed the 1869 elections.

Political career during the early Third Republic

After the fall of Napoleon III. sent the department of Gard Larcy on February 8, 1871 to the National Assembly and the "Chief of the Executive", Adolphe Thiers , appointed him Minister of Public Works on February 19. The Thiers cabinet met in Versailles during the uprising of the Paris Commune (March – May 1871) . Larcy tried to win Thiers for the interests of the monarchist majority of the assembly, with which he voted for peace with Germany, for the repeal of the banishment laws, etc. However, since he feared that he would not be able to achieve his goals, he submitted his dismissal on August 28, 1871 on the occasion of the debate on Rivet's motion to proclaim Thiers President of the Republic for three years . But Thiers was able to persuade him to stay. As before, he expressed legitimist sympathies. On December 7, 1872, he resigned definitively from his ministerial post because Thiers refused to respond to the wishes of the monarchists.

Larcy was now elected president of the legitimist club of the Strasse des Réservoirs and was henceforth one of the most ardent clericals and the most resolute opponents of Thiers and the republican form of government. He took an active part in the fall of Thiers on May 23, 1873. After attempts to restore the monarchy with the Count of Chambord as the new sovereign failed on October 27 due to his stubbornness, Larcy voted on November 19 with the right-wing and moderate left Republicans to extend Mac-Mahon's presidency to seven years ( Septennate ). A week later, on November 26, 1873, he took over the Ministry of Public Works in the cabinet of the Duke of Broglie in place of Alfred Deseillignys . He supported all resolutions of the cabinet up to its overthrow on May 21, 1874, after which he resigned with his colleagues.

In January 1875 the President of the Republic, Mac-Mahon, appointed Larcy to replace that of Ernest Courtot de Cissey with the formation of a new cabinet , but no result could be achieved and Cissey remained in power for the time being. At that time, constitutional laws to be passed came to the National Assembly for final negotiation. These were approved by a majority on February 25 , with some modifications requested by a middle group under Wallon on January 30th. Larcy had voted against both the Wallon amendment and the adoption of the constitutional laws three and a half weeks later; He was reluctant to see the consolidation of the republic as a French form of government. In May his activity in the Thirties Committee ended and on December 31, 1875 his mandate as a deputy ended.

Failed in the Senate elections in December 1875, Larcy remained without a parliamentary mandate and was only permanent senator on December 4, 1877 in place of the late Franclieu . In this higher chamber of parliament he was one of the most important leaders of the monarchist party and was particularly noticeable for violent attempts to interfere.

Larcy wrote many articles in the Correspondant , in the Gazette de France and in other journals, in 1860 the first part of a large-scale work Des vicissitudes politiques de la France appeared , and in 1868 he also published Louis XVI et les États-Généraux . He died in Pierrelatte in 1882 at the age of 77.

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personal data
SURNAME Larcy, Charles-Paulin-Roger Saubert de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French statesman
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Vigan (Gard)
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1882 or November 8, 1882
Place of death Pierrelatte