Paul Armand Challemel Lacour
Paul-Armand Challemel Lacour, born in Avranches on 19 May 1827 and died in Paris 26 October 1896 , is a statesman of French.
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Biography
After his studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure , he won first prize in the aggregation in philosophy in 1849. He teaches philosophy at Pau and then to Limoges. His opinions republican earned him being arrested in 1851 after the coup of Napoleon III. Exiled after several months of detention, he traveled to Europe , gives conferences in Belgium and became a professor of literature in French the ETH Zurich in 1856. Returning to France after the amnesty of 1859 , his course project on the history and art is immediately removed and he is obliged to live by his pen contributing regularly to journals. It provides literary criticism of the time , manages La Revue des Deux Mondes and directs the policy review.
Appointed prefect of the Rhone in the fall of the Second Empire in September 1870 by the government of national defense, it must repress the revolutionary uprising in Lyon. Resigned on 5 February 1871 , he was elected to the National Assembly in January 1872 and in 1876 , the Senate.
Serving first at the far left , his temperament and philosophical criticism was not in harmony with the daring of the French extremism and his attitude toward political issues has changed to become a regular on the end of his life the first representative of moderate Republicanism. Life of Gambetta , he was nevertheless one of its most ardent defenders, and one time editor of its organ, the French Republic. In 1879 he was appointed ambassador of France in Berne , then London in 1880. Undiplomatic, he resigned in 1882 and became foreign minister in February 1883 in the cabinet of Jules Ferry , but withdrew in November of that year.
His eloquence and clear rationale has topped the French speakers of his time. Elected vice-chairman of the Senate in 1890 , he succeeded Jules Ferry chair President of 27 March 1893 to 16 January 1896 , where he distinguished himself by the vigor with which he supports the Senate against the encroachments of the House before his health unsteady forced him to resign in 1896 , subsequently replaced by Emile Loubet.
Elected to the French Academy in 1893 , he, besides his own works, some of which have been translated into German and Turkish , made himself the process of translation and publication of works by Louise d'Epinay in 1869.
References
- Hector Depasse, Challemel Lacour, Paris, A. Quantin, 1883
- Eugene hail, Normand "uprooted" and disregarded Paul Challemel Lacour: his family, his childhood, his youth: according to unpublished documents, Paris, Champion; Caen, L. Jouan, 1917
- Edward Krakowski, The Birth of the Third Republic ; Challemel-Lacour, the philosopher and statesman, Paris, V. Attinger, 1932
- Alfred Mezieres , Funeral of Mr. Lacour Challemel member of the French Academy Friday, October 30, 1896, Paris, Institut de France, 1896
Works
- Oratorical works, Paris, C. Delegrave, 1897
- Studies and reflections of a pessimist, Paris, Charpentier, 1901
- A Buddhist contemporary Germany, Arthur Schopenhauer, Paris, Bureau of the Revue des Deux Mondes, 1870
- Philosophy individualistic study of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Paris, G. Baillire, 1864
- Studies and reflections of a pessimist: monitoring, A Buddhist contemporary Germany, Arthur Schopenhauer, Paris, Fayard, 1993
- The Salon of 1866, Paris, 1866
Translations
- Heinrich Ritter, History of Modern Philosophy, French translation of the German preceded by an introduction by P. Challemel Lacour, Paris, Ladrange, 1861
- Giacomo Leopardi, Philosophical Paradoxes, translated from Italian by Paul-Armand-Lacour Challemel with a preface, Paris, Champion, 1914
Editions
- Petronilla of Florence Louise Tardieu Esclavelles d'Epinay, Letters to my son, Ed. Paul-Armand Challemel Lacour, Paris, A. Sauton, 1869
Bibliography
- Henri Avenel, How to vote in France, eighteen years of universal suffrage, 1876-1893. Biographies with portraits of Casimir-Perier, Challemel Lacour, and Dupuy Burdeau, Paris, Book-printing combined, 1894
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Timelines
| Preceded by | Paul-Armand Challemel Lacour | Followed by | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jules Ferry |
| mile Loubet | |||
| Armand Fallires |
| Jules Ferry |
| Second Empire | 1852 Jerome Bonaparte 1852 Raymond Theodore Troplong 1869 Adrien Marie Devienne 1869 Eugene Rouher 1870 | |
| Third Republic | 1876 Duke of Audiffret-Pasquier 1879 Louis Martel 1880 Lon Say 1882 Philippe Le Royer 1893 Jules Ferry 1893 Paul-Armand Challemel Lacour 1896 Emile Loubet 1899 Armand Fallires 1906 Antonin Dubost 1920 Lon Bourgeois 1923 Gaston Doumergue 1924 Justin Germain Casimir de Selves 1927 Paul Doumer 1931 Albert Lebrun 1932 Jules Jeanneney 1942 | |
| Fourth Republic | 1947 Auguste Champetier de Ribes 1947 Gaston Monnerville 1958 | |
| Fifth Republic | 1958 Gaston Monnerville 1968 Alain Poher 1992 Rene Monory 1998 Christian Poncelet 2008 Gerard Larcher (ongoing) | |
| Preceded by Ernest Renan | Chair 29 of the French Academy 1893-1896 | Followed by Gabriel Hanotaux |

