Jules Grévy

François Paul Jules Grévy ( born August 15, 1807 in Mont- sous- Vaudrey, Jura, † September 9, 1891 ibid ) was a French lawyer and politician. He was president from 1879 to 1887.

Life

Jules Grévy came from an upper middle class family and pursue a career as a lawyer. During the February Revolution of 1848 he was government commissioner of the Department of Law and posted by his home constituency in the National Constituent Assembly in the same year. There he took a decided Republican position and fought mainly against the direct election of the president by the people. As an opponent of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte he retired after his coup in 1851 retired from politics. 1868 Grévy was again a deputy of the department of law and member of the opposition. He was among the most outspoken opponents of the Franco-German War and propagated the proclamation of the Republic, to which it did not come. From 1871 to 1873 Grévy, who had meanwhile taken a moderate Republican attitude was president of the Chamber of Deputies.

Following the resignation of his political opponent Patrice de Mac -Mahon on January 30, 1879 Grévy was elected by the Members of the President. This was a decisive step in the democratization of the political system in France dar. His domestic policy was marked by the strengthening of Parliament and the enforcement of the principle of secularism. Moreover, he supported an amnesty for the convicted after the Commune revolutionaries. In foreign policy he pursued a policy of detente. 1885 Grévy was re-elected for a second term.

In 1887, a scandal broke out around his son Daniel Wilson. He sold fake medals. Grévy was forced as a result of this scandal on 2 December of the year to resign. He died in his home town of Mont- sous- Vaudray on September 9, 1891.

In addition to his political career ( and not affected by this ) Grevy was also a very well-known French lawyer, especially in civil law. In 1837 he was admitted to the bar. In 1862 he joined the " Conseil de l' Ordre ". In 1868 he became chairman of the Paris Bar Association ( Bâtonnier de Paris).

Works

• Discours politiques et judiciaires, rapports et de Jules Grévy messages. - Paris: Maison Quantin, 1888 (edited by Lucien Delabrousse ) Document Electronique