Paul Challemel-Lacour

Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour

Paul Armand Challemel-Lacour (born May 19, 1827 in Avranches , Département Manche , † October 26, 1896 in Paris ) was a French politician and author.

Life

Challemel-Lacour attended the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and was accepted into the Écoles normales supérieures in 1846 . After his agrégation in philosophy in 1849, he taught in Pau and Limoges . After the coup of Napoléon III. in December 1851 Challemel-Lacour protested, whereupon he was imprisoned for a few months and then exiled. Until the amnesty in 1859 he traveled through Europe and became professor of French literature at the ETH Zurich . Returning to France and in opposition to the Second Empire , he published literary and philosophical studies in the Revue nationale , the Revue moderne and the Revue des Deux Mondes , which attracted great attention. In 1868 he founded the Revue politique with Léon Gambetta .

After the fall of Napoléon and the end of the Second Empire, Challemel-Lacour was appointed prefect of the Rhône department in 1870 and had to suppress an uprising in Lyon that same year . In February 1871 he gave up his prefecture again and was elected in 1872 by the radical Republican in the National Assembly for the Bouches-du-Rhône department . In 1876 he was elected to the Senate and joined the faction of the Union républicaine . Jules Grévy appointed him ambassador to Bern in February 1879 , ambassador to London in June 1880 and foreign minister in the Jules Ferry government in February 1883 . On November 20 of the same year, Challemel-Lacours resigned for health reasons. Re-elected to the Senate in January 1885, he became Vice-President in 1889 and finally President of the Chamber from 1893 to January 1896, succeeding the late Jules Ferry, in which he remained until his death.

Challemel-Lacour was elected to the Académie française in 1893 .

Works

• Œuvres oratoires , Paris, C. Delegrave, 1897
• Études et réflexions d'un pessimiste , Paris, Charpentier, 1901
• Un bouddhiste contemporain en Allemagne, Arthur Schopenhauer , Paris, Bureau de la Revue des Deux Mondes, 1870
• La philosophie individualiste; étude sur Guillaume de Humboldt , Paris, G. Baillière, 1864
• Études et réflexions d'un pessimiste: suivi de, Un bouddhiste contemporain en Allemagne, Arthur Schopenhauer , Paris, Fayard, 1993
• Le Salon de 1866 , Paris, 1866

literature

• Alphonse Bertrand: Le Sénat de 1894 , Mouillot, Paris 1984.
• Adolphe Robert, Gaston Cougny (eds.): Dictionnaire des parlementaires français 1789-1889 . 1st volume. Bourleton, Paris 1889
• Jean Jolly (ed.): Dictionnaire des Parlementaires Français, Notices Biographiques sur les Ministres, Sénateurs et Députés Français de 1889 à 1940 . Paris 1960.

Web links

• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Literature by and about Paul Challemel-Lacour in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Information on Paul Challemel-Lacour in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

predecessor	Office	successor
Armand Fallières	Foreign Minister of France February 21, 1883 to November 20, 1883	Jules Ferry