Radical republican editor of La Réforme who joined the Provisional Government of 1848 and was minister of agriculture and commerce
Born in Paris in 1800, the son of a Chappe telegraph employee, he was a Carbonaro in the 1820s and under the July Monarchy belonged to republican secret societies while working as a parliamentary stenographer and journalist. From 1845 he edited the radical republican La Réforme, which published Proudhon, Bakunin, Engels and Marx. After the February Revolution of 1848 he joined the Provisional Government without a portfolio, was elected for the Seine in April and sat with the Mountain. He was minister of agriculture and commerce under the Executive Commission from 11 May to 28 June 1848; hostile to the June insurgents, he backed dictatorial powers for Cavaignac. Defeated in 1849, he edited a paper in Strasbourg, was banished after the coup of 1851 and died in poverty in Lausanne in 1866.
Activities and affiliations
- 1845–1848
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1848
Government and administration
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1848–1849
Legislature and state representation
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1848–1849
The Mountain (Democratic Socialists, 1848–1851)
Legislature and state representation
Career Timeline
- 1845–1848Editor of La Réforme
- 1848Member of the Provisional Government
- 1848Minister of Agriculture and Commerce
- 1848–1849Deputy for the Seine in the Constituent Assembly
- 1851Banished after the coup