Emmanuel Pons Dieudonné de Las Cases

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Emmanuel Pons Dieudonné de Las Cases (born June 8, 1800 in Saint-Méen ( Finistère department ), † July 8, 1854 in Passy ( Seine department )) was a French politician . He was a deputy from 1830 to 1848 and a senator during the Second Empire from the end of 1852.

Life

Emmanuel Pons Dieudonné de Las Cases, who first held the title of baron and later became count, was the eldest son of the French naval officer and statesman Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné-Joseph de Las Cases and Clementine de Kergariou. In 1815 he accompanied his father to St. Helena , where he served as secretary to the exiled Napoleon . After his dictation he wrote down important memories for the war history of the First Empire . On November 27, 1816, he was separated from Napoleon on the orders of Sir Hudson Lowe and on December 30, 1816, he was exiled with his father to the Cape of Good Hope . From 1817 he lived in Belgium , Prussia and England until 1819 when he was allowed to return to France under an assumed name. From 1820 he studied law first in Strasbourg and then in Paris .

Las Cases adored Napoleon deeply and hated Hudson Lowe as his jailer. When Lowe returned to London after the death of the great general, Las Cases hit him in the face on the street in November 1822, to which Lowe did not react. Las Cases also sent him a challenge, which Lowe disdainfully dismissed, and traveled back to France as the London police were taking measures against him. On November 11, 1825, Las Cases was attacked in Passy and suffered two stab wounds in the left thigh and chest area, but the latter wound was not so severe because his wallet had softened the stab. Two Italians who suddenly disappeared were suspected as perpetrators. Since Lowe was in Paris at the time and left in a hurry after the unsuccessful murder attempt, Las Cases could accuse him of being the alleged instigator of this assassination attempt.

As a constitutional member, Las Cases took a lively part in the July Revolution of 1830 , fought and sat in the Hôtel de Ville , also attended several political meetings, especially the important ones with Jacques Laffitte . The large electoral college of the Finistère département brought him through the election of October 28, 1830, as a member of the Chamber of Deputies , in which he later sat for Landerneau until 1848. He was characterized by liberalism and patriotic sentiments and was very devoted to the now ruling dynasty Orléans . In 1837 he received a diplomatic mission to the Republic of Haiti . His name and his enthusiastic devotion to Napoleon determined King Louis-Philippe I to add it to his son, the Prince of Joinville , in 1840 when he was collecting Napoleon's remains from St. Helena. In the presence of Las Cases the grave was opened and with Napoleon's ashes he and Joinville returned to Paris in December 1840 on the frigate Belle Poulé . His journal , kept on board this ship, was published in Paris in 1841.

After the February Revolution of 1848 , in which he took no part, Las Cases joined Charles Louis Napoléon . After this one year after his coup d'état as Napoleon III. the new Emperor of France (December 2, 1852), he appointed Las Cases on December 31, 1852 senator . Las Cases, who was a Knight of the Legion of Honor , died suddenly on July 8, 1854, just a few days after his marriage, at the age of 54 in Passy.

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SURNAME Las Cases, Emmanuel Pons Dieudonné de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Méen ( Finistère department )
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1854
Place of death Passy ( Seine department )