Background
Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac was born in Avéron-Bergelle, département of Gers on August 11, 1806.
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Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac was born in Avéron-Bergelle, département of Gers on August 11, 1806.
In 1832 Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac began his career as a Parisian journalist, contributing ardent defences of Romanticism and Conservatism to the Revue de Paris, the Journal des Dibats, and to La Presse.
He founded a political journal, L'Epoque (1845 - 1848), in which his violent polemics in support of Guizot brought him notoriety and not a few duels.
In 1851, in the Constitutionnel, he declared himself openly an imperialist; and in 1852 was elected as " official candidate " by the department of Gers.
After the proclamation of the republic (4th of September 1870) he fled to Belgium.
He returned to France for the elections of 1876, and was elected deputy.
Elected deputy for the department of Gers in 1876, he adopted in the chamber a policy of obstruction "to discredit the republican regime. "
In 1877 he openly encouraged MacMahon to attempt a Bonapartist coup d'etat, but the marshal's refusal and the death of the prince imperial foiled his hopes.
He was not re-elected in 1902, and died in November 1904.
His sons took over L'Autoriti and the belligerent traditions of the family.
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