Victor Lefranc
Bernard Edme Victor Étienne Lefranc (born February 3, 1809 in Garlin ( Basses-Pyrénées ), † September 12, 1883 in Montsoué ( Landes )) was a French lawyer and politician .
Life
Victor Lefranc studied in Paris law and became a lawyer in 1834. As a moderate Republican, he was an opponent of the July monarchy of Louis Philippe . After the February Revolution of 1848 he was appointed General Commissioner of the Provisional Government in the Landes department, which elected him to the Constituent Assembly on April 23, 1848, and to the Legislative Assembly on May 13, 1849, where he joined the republican left and the opponents of Napoleon III. belonged to. His coup on December 2, 1851, interrupted Lefrancs political career. He ran as an independent candidate in the elections for the legislative body in 1863 and 1869, but failed each time against the official candidate of the Second Empire .
After the fall of Napoleon III. and the end of the Franco-Prussian War , Lefranc was elected to the National Assembly on February 8, 1871 . He was the rapporteur of the commission that gave Adolphe Thiers executive power, and then of the commission that was entrusted with reopening negotiations with Prussia to conclude a peace treaty. He spoke out in favor of accepting the Prussian demands. On June 9, 1871, he took over the Ministry of Agriculture and Trade in the cabinet of Jules Dufaure and on February 6, 1872 the Ministry of the Interior in the same cabinet. As a Republican, he was particularly badly attacked by the right. As a result of a vote of no confidence by the monarchist majority in the Chamber against the policy of the Minister of the Interior, Lefranc resigned immediately on November 30, 1872. From then on he belonged to the left center. On February 20, 1876 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies , on May 21, 1881 he was elected Senator for life and died on September 12, 1883 at the age of 74 in Montsoué near Saint-Sever .
literature
- Victor Lefranc . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 619.
Web links
- Lefranc, Bernard Edme Victor Étienne on the website of the Assemblée nationale
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lefranc, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lefranc, Bernard Edme Victor Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Garlin ( Basses-Pyrénées department ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1883 |
| Place of death | Montsoué ( Landes department ) |