Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry

Auguste Hilarion de Kératry ( born October 28, 1769 in Rennes, † November 1859 ) was a French writer and politician.

Life

Auguste Hilarion de Kératry came from an old Breton noble family, studied law and became a member of Parliament of Brittany. During the French Revolution, whose principles he adhered, and the Napoleonic era he lived retired and devoted himself to philosophical and religious studies. Only under the Restoration he acted as deputy to the clerical reaction, took part in the July Revolution in favor of King Louis- Philippe I, whose followers he belonged. In 1831 he was appointed State Council and Pair. The government of 1849 he opened as interim president, was as resolute monarchist and opponents of Napoleon III. and was arrested after the coup of Napoleon on 2 December 1851.

His son Émile de Kératry was also a prominent politician.

Works

• Contes et Idylles (1791 )
• Voyage de quatre heures vingt- (1800)
• Mon habit mordoré (1802, 2 vols )
• Ruth et Noemi (1811 )
• De l' existence de Dieu et de l' âme de l' immortalité (1815 )
• Inductions morales et philosophiques (1817 )
• You beau dans les arts d' imitation (1822, 3 vols )
• Examination Philosophique de Kant (1823 )
• Le dernier des Beaumauoir (1824 )
• Frédéric Styndall (1827 )
• Saphira (1836 )

And many articles in the Courrier Français, to which he was one of founders.