Ferdinand Sarrien

Ferdinand Sarrien (* October 15, 1840 in Bourbon- Lancy in Saône -et -Loire, † November 28, 1915 in Paris) was a French politician of the Third French Republic.

Sarrien studied law and in 1870 a member of the Bar of Lyon. After the Franco-German war he moved back to Bourbon -Lancy and was established in October 1871nach the death of his father Mayor and General Council of his birthplace. Temporarily 1873-1876 relieved of his mayoralty, he was elected in 1876 for the left in the Chamber of Deputies and retained his seat until 1908.

Henri Brisson called Sarrien in April 1885 as Minister of Post and Telegraph in his government. Sarrien headed in the years that followed two other ministries: From January to December 1886 from December 1887 to March 1888 and in March and April 1896, the Ministry of the Interior and from December 1886 to May 1887 and from June to October 1898, the Ministry of Justice.

On March 14, 1906 shortly after his House of Representatives had voted in its vice-president, Sarrien was asked to form a new government, which included the addition Sarrien itself as Président du Conseil also Aristide Briand, Georges Clemenceau and Henri Poincaré. During his tenure, he turned the separation of church and state strictly, but without repression, and the secularization of education was continued. On 19 October of the same year Sarrien resigned for health reasons and Clemenceau took Sarriens items.

In August 1908 Sarrien was elected to the Senate for his home department of Saône -et -Loire, in which he of the Group of the Democratic Left joined. Until his death in 1915 he remained, less politically active member of the Chamber.