Charles Ernest Beulé

Charles Ernest Beulé ( born June 29, 1826 in Saumur, Maine -et- Loire département, † April 4, 1874 in Paris) was a French politician and archaeologist.

Beulé attended the École Normale Supérieure in 1848 was appointed teacher at the Lycée of Moulins and a year later was sent to the École française d' Athènes, where he made significant discoveries on the Acropolis, which gave him known in the art. After returning to France took over the chair of archeology of Desiré -Raoul Rochette, undertook excavations in Carthage and was admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in 1860 and has 1862 Secrétaire perpétuel the Académie des Beaux -Arts.

At the end of the Franco-German War Beulé was elected in February 1871 in the National Assembly for the department of Maine -et -Loire, and took there under the Orleanist place. After Adolphe Thiers was forced to resign in May 1873 Beulé was included in the government under Patrice de Mac -Mahon and was appointed Minister of the Interior. However, due to a series of policy mistakes he had to resign in November 1873.

On April 4, 1874 Beulé was found dead in his bed, he had two bites inflicted with a stiletto.

Writings

• Les Arts et la poésie à division, sous la législation de Lycurgue (1853 )
• L' Acropole d' Athènes ( 2 volumes, 1853-1854 )
• Études sur le peloponese (1855 )
• Les Monnaies d' Athènes (1858 )
• L'Architecture au siècle de Pisistrate (1860 )
• Fouilles à Carthage (1861 )
• Phidias, drame antique (1863 )
• Causeries sur l'art (1867 )
• Histoire de l'art grec avant Périclès (1868 )
• Tibère et l' héritage d' Auguste (1868 )
• Le Sang de Germanicus (1869 )
• Le Drame du Vésuve (1872 )
• Fouilles et découvertes résumés et discutées en vue de l' histoire de l'art (2 volumes, 1876)