Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac

Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac ( born August 12, 1806 Avéron Bergelle, Gers department, † January 31, 1880 in Couloumé - Mondebat, Gers department ) was a French writer, journalist, historian and politician.

Granier de Cassagnac came in 1832 to Paris, where he worked as a journalist in newspapers of different direction by the unbridled audacity of his language made ​​itself noticeable and many disputes and litigation drew upon. While he had been before 1848, zealous and well -paid defender of orléansschen dynasty, he joined after the fall of Napoleon III. and became an ardent Bonapartist, called for the salvation of France in a coup and heaped abuse on the Orléans.

From 1852 to 1870 he was the representative of his native department of the legislative body where he belonged to the group of medicines called Arcadians, and editor for various newspapers, including the Pays. Bitchy polemic, ultra conservative and absolutist principles, processes and duels made ​​his name known, if not respected.

After the fall of Napoleon in 1870, he lived in the vicinity in Wilhelm height and then in Brussels and returned after the peace in 1871 to Paris, where he first published the Pays again, L' Ordre founded and took excellent to the Bonapartist intrigues share. In 1876 he was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies and died January 31, 1880 at his castle Couloumé.

In addition to his journalistic work Granier has also published several major historical works:

• Histoire des classes Ouvrières et des classes bourgeois (1837 ) History of the working and middle classes [ classes ]. Nachdr d ed Braunschweig, Westermann, 1839. Olms, Hildesheim / New York, ISBN 3-487-06333-6

They are all well written improvisations in which the vividness of the representation of the frequent lack of source research and the partiality of view can look away. Also two novels has delivered Granier: Danae (1840 ) and La reine des prairies (1845, 2nd edition 1859) as well as a description of his Voyage aux Antilles françaises (1844, 2 vols ) and Souvenirs du second Empire ( 1879-1883, 3 vols ).

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• Member of the Chamber of Deputies ( France)
• Journalist
• Publicist
• Historian
• Romance
• Frenchman
• Born in 1806
• Died in 1880
• Man