James Fazy

James (Jean Jacob) Fazy ( born May 12, 1794 in Geneva, † November 6, 1878 in Le Petit- Saconnex, hometown entitled in Geneva) was a Swiss politician and publicist.

Life

Fazy ​​received his education in France, settled in Paris as a journalist down and took an active part in the struggle of liberal opposition to the restoration impulses, signed July 26, 1830 the protest of the French journalists against the Juliordonnanzen, opposed the candidature of the Duke of Orleans and returned after he suffered multiple prosecutions for press offenses, in 1833 in his native city, where he had founded in 1826, the Journal de Genève.

Here he edited the Revue de Genève, organized the radical movement of 22 November 1841, as the same did not lead to the goal, the uprising of October 5 to 8, 1846, became the head of the provisional government, and afterwards the neukonstituierten and championed as an envoy to the Diet Geneva 1847/48 success with the introduction of the American bicameral system in the new Swiss Federal Constitution.

From 1846 on, only with interruption of the electoral period 1853-1855, the head of the Geneva government, he has contributed mightily to convert by razing the fortifications, execution magnificent public buildings etc. the altcalvinische Geneva into a modern cosmopolitan city; but its by no means immaculate private life and his dictatorial reign aroused displeasure, so that he was in 1861 and 1863 no longer elected to the State Council.

After his renewed candidacy in August 1864 had led to bloody chaos and a temporary federal occupation of Geneva, his influence was broken.

Works (selection)

Apart from its newspapers and numerous political and national economic brochures he wrote:

  • François Ruchon (eds. ): Les mémoires de James F., homme d'Etat Genevois ( 1794-1878 ). Geneva 1947
  • L' Homme aux portions, ou conversations philosophiques et politiques. Paris 1821
  • La mort de Levrier, tragédie national genevoise, en trois actes et en vers. Geneva 1826
  • Principes d' Organisation pour le développement the industrial richesses en France. Paris 1830
  • Essai d'un précis de l' histoire de la république de Genève. Geneva 1838-40, 2 vols
  • De l' intelligence collective des sociétés: Cours de législation Constitutionnelle. Geneva 1873
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