Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne

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Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne , born the August 3rd 1798 with Rouen and dead the May 19th 1881 with Herry, is a Journaliste and Politician French.

Wire of Jean-Marie Duvergier de Hauranne, Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne was appointed of Sancerre in 1831. He collaborates in the Globe , with the French Review , with the Revue of the two worlds . Writer, it binds friendship with Stendhal and attends Victor Hugo; politician, it is determined for parliamentary monarchy.

After having made its right, he attended the literary circles and wrote some comedies which did not have much success: the marineurs Scot or a morning (1820), Mr. Sensible (1821) and the jealous one without the knowledge . It was attracted by the political world and remained with his friend of youth Camille de Montalivet in England and Scotland in 1820 and 1821, from where they returned allured by its political regime, as testifies the Lettres to them on the English elections and the situation to Ireland , than it published in 1826.

He attends on his return the Parisian living rooms and writes many political articles as from 1824 with the Earth and then with the French Review. In 1827, become husband of the girl of the baron Micoud d' Umons, it then shared its time between Paris and the castle of Herry in the Cher: each summer, it receives there politicians, writers or philosophers among whom Barrot, Thiers, Guizot, Rémusat, Stendhal. Before any reformist and liberal, it fights the restoration of the Bourbons and supports the mode of Louis-Philippe. He is elected appointed Cher starting from 1831. But, after supporthaving initially supported the policy of repression of Louis-Philippe, criticizing royal omnipotence, it approaches Thiers and Guizot. In its book Of the Principles of the representative government and their applications, published in 1838, he formulated the famous maxim: “ the king reigns and does not control ”.

Consequently, its political sights diverging from those of his/her friend Montalivet and the relations between the two men go during some time to cool. It made, as of 1837 of the opposition to Molé and Guizot. In 1848, Thiers offers to him a transitory ministerial wallet the day before the Révolution and come to power of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte to which it was opposed, organizing the countryside of the banquets and belonging to the right-hand side antirépublicaine to Constituent in 1848. It fought with Legislative in 1850 the policy of the Elysium. At the time of the Coup d'etat of December 2nd, 1851, it is stopped and exiled a time.

Authorized to return to France in 1852, Duvergier de Hauranne deviates from the public life and is devoted to its political writings, including one Histoire of the parliamentary government in France , 1814-1848 (1857-1871). This work is worth to him to enter in 1870 to the French Academy, succeeding the duke of Broglie.

Works

Of the Principles of the government representative (1838)
Of the Foreign policy and interior of France (1841)
Of the parliamentary Reform and the electoral reform (1846)
History of the parliamentary government in France (10 vol.) (1857-1870)

Sources

political Biography of the nineteenth century , Paris, Company of Editions of Art, 2nd v., 1899, p. 94

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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