Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac

Independent activity Monarchy and royalism 1806–1880 ○ Natural causes

Journalist notorious for his violent polemics for Guizot, who openly called for the Empire in 1851 and sat as a Bonapartist deputy

Born in the Gers in 1806 into a family of gentleman glassmakers, he grew up in his maternal uncle's household with his cousin, the journalist Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray. A Paris journalist from 1832, he founded L'Époque in 1845, whose violent polemics for Guizot brought him notoriety and duels. A zealous, well-paid defender of the Orleans dynasty before 1848, after its fall he became a passionate Bonapartist and called for a coup. In 1851 he openly advocated the Empire in Le Constitutionnel. From 1852 to 1870 he sat for the Gers in the Corps législatif as an official candidate, supporting absolutism and Catholicism as state religion and opposing press freedom. He was elected deputy again in 1876 and died in 1880.

Also known as: Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac