Ferdinand Sarrien

Ferdinand Sarrien

Ferdinand Sarrien (born October 15, 1840 in Bourbon-Lancy in the Saône-et-Loire department , † November 28, 1915 in Paris ) was a French politician of the Third French Republic .

Sarrien studied law and became a member of the Lyon Bar Association in 1870 . After the Franco-Prussian War he moved back to Bourbon-Lancy and in October 1871, following the death of his father, he became mayor and general councilor of his birthplace. Removed from his mayor's office temporarily from 1873 to 1876, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Left in 1876 and retained his seat until 1908.

Henri Brisson appointed Sarrien to his government as Minister of Post and Telegraphy in April 1885. Sarrien headed two other ministries in the following years: from January to December 1886, from December 1887 to March 1888 and in March and April 1896 the Ministry of the Interior and from December 1886 to May 1887 and from June to October 1898 the Ministry of Justice.

On March 14, 1906, shortly after the Chamber of Deputies had elected him its vice-president, Sarrien was tasked with the formation of a new government that included Aristide Briand , Georges Clemenceau and Henri Poincaré as well as Sarrien himself as President du Conseil . During his tenure he applied the separation of church and state strictly, but without repression, and the secularization of the education system was promoted. On October 19 of the same year, Sarrien resigned for health reasons and Clemenceau took over Sarrien's post.

In August 1908, Sarrien was elected to the Senate for his home department Saône-et-Loire, in which he joined the faction of the democratic left. Until his death in 1915 he remained, less politically active, a member of the Chamber.

literature

• Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny (eds.): Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789–1889 . Volume V (PLA-ZUY). Bourloton, Paris 1891, p. 269.
• Jean Jolly (ed.): Dictionnaire des parlementaires français. Notices biographiques sur les ministres, sénateurs et députés français from 1889 to 1940 . Paris 1960.