Gustave de Beaumont
Gustave Auguste de la Bonninière de Beaumont (born February 6, 1802 in Beaumont-la-Chartre , Département Sarthe , † March 31, 1866 in Tours ) was a French publicist and politician .
Life
Beaumont was born as the last child of Duke Jules de Beaumont and Rose Préau de la Baraudière in the Château de La Borde in Beaumont-la-Chartre (Sarthe), in the Loire Valley, where he also spent his childhood.
From 1826 until his trip to America with Alexis de Tocqueville (1831-1832) he worked as the king's procurator at the court of first instance in Versailles. In 1836 he married Clémentine Motier de La Fayette . From 1839 he was elected a member of parliament several times. In the republican constituent national assembly of 1848 he held the office of vice-president and was a member of the commission for the drafting of a new constitution. In the same year he was ambassador of France in London , in 1849 he was called to Vienna , before being on December 2, 1851 in the coup d'état of Napoleon III. was arrested and withdrawn from politics.
His journalistic work includes writings on America - especially on the subject of slavery - which he wrote together with his travel companion Alexis de Tocqueville, as well as an early socio-political study on Ireland . His novel Marie; ou, L'Esclavage aux États-Unis (1835) is considered the earliest example of a so-called passing novel .
plant
- Du système pénitentiaire aux Etats-Unis et son application en France, together with Alexis de Tocqueville (1832)
- Marie ou l'esclavage aux États-Unis. Tableau de moeurs américaines. (1835)
- L'Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse. (1839)
Web links
- Marie ou l'esclavage aux États-Unis. Tableau de moeurs américaines. (As full text in PDF; 1.02 MB)
- Comprehensive curriculum vitae on www.tocqueville.culture.fr in French
- Publications by and about Gustave de Beaumont in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
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SURNAME | Beaumont, Gustave de |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beaumont, Gustave Auguste de la Bonninière de |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French publicist and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1802 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Beaumont-la-Chartre , Sarthe department |
DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1866 |
Place of death | Tours |