Albert De Mun
Adrien Albert Marie, Count de Mun was born in Castle Lumigny ( Seine-et-Marne ) on 28 February 1841 and died in Bordeaux on 6 October 1914 , is a member royalist French, elected Morlaix ( Finistre ) and theoretician of corporatism Christian.
Sitting in the far-right Youth and Franco-Prussian War Married in 1867 to Simone Andlau , they will be parents especially Bertrand de Mun , deputy of the Marne. Adrien Albert de Mun, a distant descendant of Helvetius (1715-1771), was formed in Saint-Cyr , and participated in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 as captain of cavalry, where he was taken prisoner. In captivity in Germany with his friend Ren de La Tour du Pin , he discovered a book by Emile Keller , member of the Upper Rhine. He also discovered his friend with the popular existing Catholic movement in Germany since 1848 at the initiative of individuals such as Lieber, the future leader of the Zentrum , the party of Christian Democracy, and Ketteler Wilhelm Emmanuel , Archbishop of Mainz and initiator of Catholicism office. The events of the Paris Commune and the bloody crackdown that led him did measure the gap that separated the working class liberalism. He then founded the workers' circles with Rene de la Tour du Pin , Felix de Roquefeuil-Cahuzac and Maurice Maignen. He wanted to contribute in this way to the re-Christianization of the people and the protection of his moral and material interests: the work of the circles were in 1 878 three hundred seventy-five circles, 37 500 workers and 7600 members of the ruling classes. In 1881 , he was one of the founders of the journal of the Association where he defends the Catholic faith Catholic. Defender of the Restoration monarchy, he told Valves on 8 May 1881 : "I am a royalist in the sincerity of my conscience as a Catholic and French" The legitimacy and social issue
"The question is whether all those who have an interest in social conservatism - and I except natural person - will in time come together and agree, not to coalesce in a fruitless resistance, but lead, to drive economic reform became necessary, or unavoidable if this reform will definitely without them and against them. That is the question: there is no higher in the political, I do not know who deserves a higher point of fixing the attention of statesmen, has a name: c is the social question.Man, the living being, with his soul and his body disappeared before the computation of the material. Social ties have been severed, and the reciprocal duties have been deleted in the national interest itself has been subject to the chimera of cosmopolitan interests, and thus competition fertile, legitimate, that stimulates, develops, which is the necessary condition for success, was replaced by a ruthless competition, almost wild, throwing it all inevitably leads to this end is called the struggle for life . "
Modern nations are suffering, and chronic disease that depletes (...) is excessive competition.
For a century, new doctrines have risen on the world of economic theories have invaded, who proposed the indefinite increase of wealth as the supreme goal of human ambition, and, considering only of the exchangeable value of things, have misconstrued the nature of work in degrading the level of a commodity that is bought and sold at the lowest price.
Waldeck-Rousseau law allowed these mixed unions, but they refused the option of acquiring defended the Count de Mun, who wished they could be eligible to receive donations and bequests and to organize unions against unemployment , poverty, disease and old age . He is opposed in May 1885 to the decommissioning of the Pantheon . He also voted against the establishment of proceedings against the general, who was eventually convicted by the High Court of Justice The rally of 1892 Finally, he rallied to the Republic in the wake of the positions of Leo XIII and the Social Doctrine of the Church (Encyclical Amid the solicitude of 1892). Mun agrees to sacrifice his convictions and separate from many of his friends, and declares the 23 May 1892 , at Grenelle , at the Congress of the ACJF : "I intend to put my political action on the ground to conform to constitutional decisions of the sovereign pontiff " He was elected to the French Academy in the first round on 1April 1897. During the Dreyfus Affair , he castigates the "Union" ( Jew ) protecting Dreyfus . On 20 January 1898 , two days after the publication of J'Accuse ...! by Emile Zola , he rises to the Chamber of Deputies against him and L'Aurore : this vote, by 312 votes cons 122, prosecution against the author . In 1901 he was with Jacques Piwi one of the founders of Liberal Popular Action , the political party of Catholics rallied to the Republic. Uncompromising enemy of the government Waldeck-Rousseau and Combes little father , he was strongly opposed to the law of separation of church and state in 1905 Testimony The cousin of Albert de Mun, Elisabeth de Gramont, Duchesse de Clermont-Tonnerre, devotes several pages of his memoirs (the Time of the Crew, Grasset, 1928) Albert de Mun, the latter's brother, Robert de Mun had Moreover, married Elizabeth's aunt, Jeanne de Gramont. "M. de Mun, cuirassiers officer, had led a joyous life in Algeria until his marriage to the lovely Miss Andlau, and from that moment on, believing and practicing Catholic he lived in great with his wife and Many children, dividing his time between the Chamber of Deputies and his studies of Christian philosophy. The beautiful Madame de ... X, bringing it into his coupe, and teasing him. - You see me heartbroken, but I never deceive my wife. He went to Mass every morning with a big parishioner under his arm. I know that his religious sentiments were sincere, but it was a bit ostentatious religion. In almost monastic simplicity in his private life, he sought the worldly goods to his children that he allied with the major brands of champagne and eau-de-vie. Parliamentary Positions The anti-Dreyfus and founder of the liberal People's Action
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Preceded by
Jules Simon Chair 8 of the French Academy
1897-1914 Followed by
Alfred Baudrillart
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