Armand Carrel

Armand Carrel ( born May 8, 1800 Rouen, † July 24, 1836 in Saint- Mandé ) was a French journalist.

Life

Armand Carrel was the son of a wealthy merchant at Rouen and was educated at the Military School of Saint- Cyr to the officer. In 1819 he was a second lieutenant and entered 1823 in Barcelona in the Freikorps Minas one. He was captured by the French troops in Spain and sentenced by court-martial sentence to death, of which, however, saved him a form error in judgment.

Released after one year of imprisonment, he went to Paris, joined to Adolphe Thiers, François Mignet and Augustin Thierry and wrote on the latter Council an approvingly recorded history of Scotland, the 1827 presentation of the counter-revolution in England under Charles II and James II followed.

With Mignet, and Thiers Sautelet he joined in 1830 for the publication of the National, who stood at the head of all the opposition journals soon. After the July Revolution, he became the first editor of this newspaper. He was the most dangerous opponents of the government by the relentless ingenuity with which he exposed the blunders of those in power, and by its respectable reputation. He stopped his Republican principles amid hostility and persecution firmly defended it in 1833 in a duel against a legitimist journalists and lost it in 1834 with six months' imprisonment.

Even after the unfortunate outcome of the republican rising in April 1834 to defend the liberties of the nation boldly Carrel, especially as a defender of the interim editor of National before the Chamber of Peers; He joined formally as a prosecutor same on, lingered especially in the crimes committed against the Marshal Michel Ney judicial murder and called when the president ordered him silenced, the statement of General Rémy -Isidore Exelmans out that the condemnation Ney had really been a lawless assassination, condemned what was under tremendous tumult of the National Gerant to a fine of 10,000 francs and two years in prison and the sheet since then was followed with the greatest hardness and reprimanded.

After insulting attacks of the contentious editor of the newly founded newspaper La Presse, Émile de Girardin, the National and the person carrels it came between the two to a duel, in which Carrel possibly sustain a wound, which he after two days, on 24 July 1836, died. His funeral was a great demonstration of all liberals against the government. His oeuvre politiques et littéraires gave Emile Littre and Paulin out.

Works

• Oeuvres politiques et littéraires: mises en ordre et annotées précédées d'un notice bibliographique sur l' auteur par Littre et Paulin. - 5 volumes in -8. Paris: Éditions Chamerot, 1857-1859