Adrien Recurt

Adrien Barnabé Athanase Recurt ( born June 9, 1798 in Lassalle, Hautes -Pyrénées, † November 7, 1872 in Lévignac, Haute- Garonne) was a French politician. The Republicans ran briefly the Ministries of the Interior and of public works in the Second Republic.

Recurt studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1822 in Montpellier. In the last years of the Restoration he settled in the Paris suburb of Saint -Antoine as a physician, was a member of the Charbonnerie and fought in the July Revolution of 1830 against the monarchy. Even at the time of the July Monarchy, he remained in the opposition to Louis Philippe.

During the February Revolution of 1848 he took part in street battles, and was named after its end as Deputy Mayor of Paris. Two months later he was elected to the Constituent National Assembly and became its vice president. On 11 May 1848 he was appointed Minister of the Interior in the executive Commission. During his tenure, he fought in June uprising led by Louis -Eugène Cavaignacs in Saint -Antoine. On June 28 Recurt took over the leadership of the Ministry of Public Works in Cavaignacs government. After his resignation on 15 October 1848 he was appointed on the 25th of the month to the prefect of the départements of Seine. After the election of Napoleon III. on December 10, 1848 was Recurt on his political offices and spent the rest of his life as a doctor in southern France.