Victor Chauffour
Marie Victor Chauffour , also Victor Chauffour-Kestner (born March 13, 1819 in Colmar , † June 23, 1889 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French politician .
Life
Victor Chauffour was the son of a lawyer in Colmar. His two brothers were:
- Ignace Chauffour (born January 13, 1808 in Colmar, † December 6, 1879 ibid), member of the Haut-Rhin department ;
- Louis Chauffour (born April 8, 1816 in Colmar, † July 5, 1888 in Paris), member of the Haut-Rhin department.
At a young age he was appointed professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Strasbourg .
He was politically active and was on April 23, 1848 in the National Assembly of the Second French Republic republican member of parliament for the Bas-Rhin department ; There he fought, as a declared opponent of the presidential policy, with his speeches and in the votes against all measures proposed and decided by the reactionary majority.
After the coup d'état of December 2, 1851 , he was forced to give up teaching and in 1852 fled to Basel with his father-in-law Charles Kestner, who was a member of the Haut-Rhin department until the coup d'état. Victor Chauffour was interned in Zurich , where he studied chemistry at the University of Zurich .
Due to the efforts of Federal Councilors Jonas Furrer and Henri Druey , his internment was lifted again in 1853 with the consent of France and he was thus able to manage one of his father-in-law's companies in Schweizerhalle .
During the Second Empire he got involved with his father-in-law and brother-in-law Jean Baptiste Charras (1810-1865) for the republican anti-partist cause.
He was in close contact with the Alsatian Republicans Jean-Baptiste Charras (1810–1865), Marc Dufraisse (1811–1876) and Edgar Quinet .
After the amnesty of 1859 he took over the management of his father-in-law's chemical factory in Thann.
On July 14, 1879, he was appointed to the State Council.
Since 1849 Victor Chauffour was married to Fanny (* July 29, 1831 in Thann; † December 16, 1850 ibid), a daughter of the politician and chemical entrepreneur Charles Kestner (1803-1870). Their daughter was:
- Fanny Chauffour (born September 19, 1850 in Thann; † October 8, 1928 in Bois le Roi ), married to Antoine Bavier (1844–1926).
At the wedding of his niece Mathilde Eugénie Risler (1850-1920) in 1875 with the later Prime Minister Jules Ferry , he was there as best man.
His brother-in-law Auguste Scheurer-Kestner defended Alfred Dreyfus .
His tombstone is in Thann.
Memberships
- From 1880 Vicotr Chauffour was a member of the Société de l'histoire de France .
Fonts (selection)
- Etudes sur les Réformateurs du XVI e siècle . Paris 1853.
- La Peine de mort. Saint-Germain: Impr. De Toinon . 1862.
- M. Thiers, histories: notes sur l'histoire du consulat et de l'empire . Paris: Librairie internationale, 1863.
- L'Église et la Révolution . Paris 1864.
- Jean-Baptiste-Adolphe Charras; Victor Chauffour: Histoire de la guerre de 1813 en Allemagne . Paris: A. Le Chevalier, 1870.
- Ernest de Neyremand . 1892.
- Frédéric Titot . Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1897.
literature
- Marie Victor Chauffour. In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , Volume 6, p. 501. 1985.
Web links
- Marc Vuilleumier: Victor Chauffour. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charras, Jean-Baptiste. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Kestner, Charles. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
- ↑ M. Thiers, historien: notes sur l'histoire du consulat et de l'empire . Librairie internationale, 1863 ( google.de [accessed September 19, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chauffour, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chauffour-Kestner, Victor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colmar |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1889 |
| Place of death | Neuilly-sur-Seine |