Emmanuel Arago

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Emmanuel Arago

François Victor Emmanuel Arago (born August 6, 1812 in Paris , † November 26, 1896 there ) was a French politician and lawyer.

Life

Emmanuel Arago was the eldest son of the French astronomer, physicist and politician François Arago and his wife Lucie Carrier Besombes. From 1832 he appeared with poetic attempts, then studied law and in 1837 became a lawyer at the Appellhof in Paris. During the July monarchy he worked as a lawyer in political processes, e. E.g. that of Armand Barbès in 1839.

As a Republican, Arago took an eager part in the February Revolution in 1848 . Sent by the provisional government on February 27, 1848 as extraordinary commissioner of the Département Rhône to Lyon , he embittered by writing a tax for the maintenance of the. National workshops the bourgeoisie without satisfying the working class. He was then a member of the Constituent and Legislative Assembly, where he joined the new Mountain Party. Sent to Berlin as envoy on May 25 with very measured instructions because of Poland , he achieved little here. In December 1848, at his request, he rejoined the National Assembly and fought against President Louis Napoléon , after whose coup d'état of December 2, 1851 he withdrew from public life.

During the Second Empire , Arago was one of the fiercest opponents of Napoleon III. Now he made a name for himself as a defender in political and press trials, as he defended the Polish nationalist Antoni Berezowski , who shot at the Emperor Alexander II of Russia on June 6, 1867 in the Bois de Boulogne . He joined the Legislative Body (Corps législatif) in November 1869 and spoke out against the intended declaration of war on Germany at the session on July 15, 1870. After the fall of the Empire on September 4, 1870, Arago became a member of the government of national defense, first as a minister without a portfolio, then as a provisional minister of justice. In February 1871 he was Minister of the Interior for a short time.

As a member of the National Assembly and since 1876 of the Senate , Arago joined the party of moderate republicans and was French ambassador in Bern from 1880 to 1894 . In the election of a President of the Republic to succeed the late Marie François Sadi Carnot on June 27, 1894, he received 27 votes, but Jean Casimir-Perier was the new President with a clear majority. After his resignation in January 1895, Arago declined to run again. He died in Paris on November 26, 1896 at the age of 84.

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SURNAME Arago, Emmanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arago, François Victor Emmanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1896
Place of death Paris