Gabriel Pierre Deville

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Gabriel Pierre Deville (born March 8, 1854 in Tarbes , † February 28, 1940 in Viroflay ) was a French politician, historian, publicist and diplomat .

Life

Gabriel Pierre Deville studied law at the University of Toulouse and the University of Paris . He became a member of the parti ouvrier français (French workers' party) of Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue in the Café Soufflet on the corner of Rue des Écoles and Boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris . He organized the international workers' congress in Paris in 1889 . In his newspaper articles he called for the release of Louis-Auguste Blanqui . He summarized the first volume of Das Kapital , the main work of Karl Marx , and translated it into French . He asked Marx for the right to publish what Friedrich Engels had given him. The edition took place in 1883 under the name Le capital in Paris. He was first elected to the National Assembly in 1895 , where he joined the Groupe Socialiste faction until 1898 .

In December 1903, Gabriel Deville became a member of the Commission centrale de recherche et de publication des documents sur l'histoire économique de la Révolution française (Scientific Committee on the Economic History of the French Revolution ).

In 1904 he left the socialist party and entered the foreign service. In June 1905 he became a member of the Commission d'organization des bibliothèques et des archives from which the National Archives emerged . On July 16, 1907, he became a member of the French delegation of the Commission européene du Danube (European Danube Commission). On February 6, 1909, he became the Foreign Minister's deputy bureau chief.

From June 5, 1909 to July 1915, he was the French envoy in Athens. With the Goudi uprising in 1909, Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos came to power. Deville was accredited by King George I. He had no right to speak at court, but communicated with the king through Francis Edmund Hugh Elliot .

He left 1.2 meters of literature in the National Archives of France.

Publications

  • Anarchisme par Gabriel Deville, Paris 1887
  • Gracchus Babeuf and the Conspiracy of Equals, Hottingen-Zurich 1887
  • Philosophy du socialisme, Lille, 1896
  • Principes socialistes, Paris 1896, 1898
  • L'entente la Grèce & la Bulgarie, Paris 1919

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George M. Mélas, Ex-King Constantine and the War, p. 134
  2. ↑ Max Weber , Max Weber Complete Edition: Volume III / 4: Workers 'question and workers' movement, p. 320
  3. ^ Archives nationales (France), Suzanne d'Huart, Chantal de Tourtier-Bonazzi-État sommaire des fonds d'archives privées: séries AP (1 à 629 AP) p. 116
predecessor Office successor
Olivier d'Ormesson (1849-1923) Ambassade de France en Grèce
June 5, 1909 to July 1915 		Jean Guillemin
personal data
SURNAME Deville, Gabriel Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarbes
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1940
Place of death Viroflay