François Briatte

François Briatte (born September 27, 1805 in Lausanne , † January 30, 1877 there ; entitled to live in Echichens and Schwaderloch ) was a Swiss politician .

biography

Briatte comes from a French family and was naturalized with his family in the canton of Vaud in 1805 . Between 1820 and 1822 he was a student at the Lausanne Academy and then began studying agriculture at the Fellenberg Institute in Hofwil . He later studied forestry in Germany and France. His first professional activity was as inspector of the Alpes (1823) and Jorat (1831) forest districts. In 1837 he was elected to the Grand Council , where he often championed the positions of the extreme radicals . Together with Henri Druey , he was actively involved in the overthrow of the liberal Vaudois government. The entire State Council of the Canton of Vaud resigned on February 14, 1845, and Briatte became a member of the new Provisional Government. The election confirmation followed in March and he was officially a State Councilor from then on. From 1845 to 1847 he headed the military department, 1852, 1853 and 1855 the construction department, 1849 and 1858 to 1859 the justice and police department, 1850 to 1851 and 1860 to 1861 the department of the interior and from 1856 to 1857 the finance department. In the years 1839, 1844, 1845 and 1848 he was together with Druey the conference delegate .

In 1848 Briatte was elected to the Council of States for the first time and was appointed President of the “Small Chamber” in the first year. He presided over them from 1848 to 1850 and then in 1852/53, 1856/57 and 1859/60. In total, he was President of the Council of States four times; no one ever reaches more terms. Since 1890, Council of States may only be appointed President once. Briatte was not a permanent member of the Council of States during this time, but only in the years 1848 to 1853, 1856 to 1862 and 1864 to 1867. In 1855 he ran unsuccessfully as a Federal Councilor .

After an alliance between left radicals and liberals led by Jules Eytel in 1862, this brought the Vaudois government down again. Briatte was no longer re-elected to the State Council. When he also missed re-entry into the Grand Council four years later, he withdrew from politics.

In 1820 he was a co-founder of the cantonal section of Zofingia . In his military service from 1839 to 1845 he was lieutenant colonel and commander of the 1st military district of Vevey and Moudon .

See also

• List of Presidents of the Council of States

literature

• Erich Gruner: Federal Assembly 1 . S. 782 f .
• Pierre-André Bovard: Le gouvernement vaudois de 1803 à 1862 . 1982.

Web links

• Olivier Meuwly: Briatte, François. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Publications by and about François Briatte in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fourth presidium. parlamentsgeschichte.ch, accessed on October 5, 2009 . 
2. ^ The Presidents of the Council of States since 1848. (No longer available online.) Parlament.ch, archived from the original on 23 September 2009 ; Retrieved October 5, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Michel Steiner, Urs Altermatt : Constant Fornerod . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 82 .