Albert, 4th duc de Broglie
Jacques -Victor- Albert, 4th Duke de Broglie [ də brɔj ] ( born June 13, 1821 in Paris, † January 19, 1901 ) was a French historian, journalist and statesman of the family of the Dukes de Broglie.
Life
Albert, eldest son of the Minister Victor de Broglie, 3rd Duke de Broglie suggested, still very young, the journalistic career one, wrote several articles in the " Revue des Deux Mondes ," and was for a time one of the main editors of the " Correspondant ". In his writings, he showed himself as an opponent of extremes and defended at the same time the Catholic interests and the principles of constitutional liberalism.
His main works are:
- " L' Église et l' Empire romain au IV siècle " (3 departments in six volumes, from which individual repeatedly launched, Paris 1856-69 and more often), a history of the government of Constantine from the orthodox Catholic point of view;
- " Études morales et littéraires " - Paris. Michel Levy, 1853
- " Questions de religion et d' histoire " (ibid. 1860, 2 volumes)
- " Nouvelles études de litterature et de morale" (ibid. 1868).
The Duke married in 1845 in Paris Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn ( 1825-1860 ), with whom he had the following children:
- Louis Alphonse Victor (1846-1906), 5th duc de Broglie
- Maurice (1848-1862)
- Amédée (1849-1917) ∞ 1875 Marie Charlotte Constance Say
- François Marie Albert (1851-1939) ∞ 1884 Jeanne Emeline Cabot de Dampmartin
Broglie in 1862 was admitted to the Académie française.
In the elections elected to the National Assembly on February 8, 1871, he received on 19 February of Adolphe Thiers the ambassador to London, England where he vainly mediation to mitigate the peace terms called and France took on the Pontuskonferenz in March. But he was less diplomatic than politically active for a restoration of the monarchy and the merger of Bourbon and Orleans.
As Thiers therefore in May 1872 abberief him from London and more decisively declared for the Republic, Broglie caused at the top of the monarchists on May 24, 1873 his fall and entered himself at the head of the new government, in which he presided over the non- Ministry of Foreign Affairs took to establish the order and bring about the accession of Henry V. with the Orléans as heir to the throne.
When this plan failed, Broglie was in November on the establishment of the Septennat and took over in the newly formed government of 26 November except chaired the Interior Ministry. He ruled reactionary and clerical, but could not yet win the favor of the legitimist and was overthrown by those on 22 May 1874 by refusing his request to consult the electoral law of the constitutional laws first.
On accepting the Bonapartist whose protégé to be Thiers once reproached him with biting mockery, and by the disruption of his financial circumstances, he damaged his reputation as well as by his scheming ambition. He was therefore elected in 1876 until a by-election to the Senate. Here he was the leader of the reactionary parties that the Republic refused to be secure, put 1877 at Mac Mahon, the sudden dismissal by Simons and entered on May 17, again at the head of the government in which he took over the presidency and the judiciary.
This government wrote to the fight against radical principles on their banners and turned all the resources of the Empire in order to get through elections a docile chamber. This failed, Broglie was not elected in his own department and was discharged on November 20.
Thus his political role was played for a long time. He devoted himself again to the studies and published according to family papers the work of his great-uncle, Charles- François de Broglie; also the very biased against Prussia works: " Frédéric II et Marie -Thérèse " (Paris, 1882, 2 volumes; German Schwebel, Minden 1883) and " Frédéric II et Louis XV " (1884 ).
His second son, Emmanuel (* 1854), wrote: " Le fils de Louis XV, Louis, dauphin de France " (1877 ).