Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy

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Le comte de Salvandy en Grand maître de l'Université. Portrait of Paul Delaroche . Paris, Musee du Louvre .

Narcisse-Achille comte de Salvandy (born June 11, 1795 in Condom , † December 15, 1856 at his castle in Graveron-Sémerville in the Eure department ) was a French statesman and publicist .

Life

de Salvandy came from a family of Irish origin and took part in the wars of liberation of 1813 and 1814. In 1814 he left his military service as adjudant major and was awarded the Legion of Honor on December 31, 1815 .

From 1819 to 1821 he was maître des requêtes and became a journalist for the " Journal des Débats ". In 1827 he was appointed to the Council of State by Prime Minister Jean-Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac , and resigned from this post in 1829 under the Jules de Polignac government .

In 1832 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. From 1835 he was a member of the Académie française ( Fauteuil 1 ) and received from April 15, 1837 to March 31, 1839 the post of Minister of Education under Prime Minister Louis-Mathieu Molé . In 1841 he went to Madrid as envoy , in 1843 while being elevated to the rank of count to Turin , and in 1845, after Abel-François Villemain's resignation, he took over the post of education minister again.

Decommissioned by the February Revolution of 1848 , he and François Guizot tried to bring about a merger between the Legitimists and Orléanists . In March 1851, however, he received a pension of 6,000 francs by presidential decree .

Works

  • Don Alonzo, ou l'Espagne (1824)
  • Histoire de Pologne avant et sous le roi Jean Sobiesky (1827–1829)
  • Islaor, ou le barde chrétien (1824)
  • Seize mois, ou la révolution et les révolutionnaires (1831)
  • La Révolution de 1830 (1855)

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predecessor Office successor
François Guizot
Abel-François Villemain 		Minister of Education of France
April 15, 1837 - March 31, 1839
February 1, 1845 - February 24, 1848 		Narcisse Parant
Hippolyte Carnot
personal data
SURNAME Salvandy, Narcisse-Achille de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salvandy, Narcisse-Achille comte de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Condom
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1856
Place of death Graveron-Sémerville , Eure department