Background
Charles Freycinet was born at Foix (Ariège) on November 14, 1828. He was born in a Protestant family.
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La Guerre En Province Pendant Le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871: Precis Historique (Ed.1871) (Histoire) (French Edition)
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Traité de mécanique rationnelle, comprenant la statique comme cas particulier de la mécanique: Tome 1 (French Edition)
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1858 edition by Mallet-Bachelier, Paris.
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Charles Louis de Saulces Freycinet
Edit ProfileEducation
Charles Freycinet was educated at the Eсоlе Polytechnique, and entered the government service as a mining engineer.
He showed himself a strategist of no mean order but the policy of dictating operations to the generals in the field was not attended with happy results.
Career
On the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, Charles Freycinet offered his services to Gambetta, was appointed prefect of the department of Tarn-et- Garronne, and in October became chief of the military cabinet.
It was mainly his powers of organization that enabled Gambetta to raise army after army to oppose the invading Germans.
The friction between him and General d'Aurelle de Paladines resulted in the loss of the advantage temporarily gained at Orleans, and he was responsible for the campaign in the east, which ended in the destruction of Bourbaki's army.
He passed an amnesty for the Communists, but in attempting to steer a middle course on the question of the religious associations, lost the support of Gambetta, and resigned in September 1880.
In January 1882 he again became president of the council and minister for foreign affairs.
He returned to office in April 1885 as foreign minister in the Brisson cabinet, and retained that post when, in January 1886, he succeeded to the premiership.
He came into power with an ambitious programme of internal reform but except that he settled the question of the exiled pretenders, his successes were won chiefly in the sphere of colonial extension.
In the following year, after two unsuccessful attempts to construct new ministries he stood for the presidency of the republic; but the radicals, to whom his opportunism was distasteful, turned the scale against him by transferring the votes to M. Sadi Carnot. In April 1888 he became minister of war in the Floquet cabinet -the first civilian since 1848 to hold that office.
His premiership was marked by heated debates on the clerical question, and it was a hostile vote on his Bill against the religious associations that caused the fall of his cabinet.
He failed to clear himself entirely of complicity in the Panama scandals, and in January 1893 resigned the ministry of war.
In November 1898 he once more became minister of war in the Dupuy cabinet, but resigned office on 6th May 1899.
In 1882 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890 to the French Academy in succession to Emile Augier.
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La Guerre En Province Pendant Le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871: Precis Historique (Ed.1871) (Histoire) (French Edition)
(La Guerre en province pendant le siège de Paris, 1870-187...)
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Traité de mécanique rationnelle, comprenant la statique comme cas particulier de la mécanique: Tome 1 (French Edition)
(This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 18...)
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La Guerre En Province Pendant Le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871: Precis Historique (Ed.1871) (Histoire) (French Edition)
Connections
Charles Freycinet married to Jeanne Alexandrine Bosc.
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Opportunist Republicans