François Briatte

François Briatte ( born September 27, 1805 in Lausanne, † January 30, 1877 ibid; homeland justified in Echichens and Schwaderloch ) was a Swiss politician.

Life

Briatte comes from a French family and was naturalized in 1805 together with his family in the Canton of Vaud. Between 1820 and 1822 he was a student at the Academy of Lausanne and then began the study of agriculture at the Institut fur mountain in Hofwil. Later he studied forestry in Germany and France. His first professional work he took as an inspector of forest districts Alpes ( 1823) and Jorat (1831 ) true. In 1837 he was elected to the Grand Council and championed there often the positions of the extreme radicals. Along with Henri Druey he was actively involved in the overthrow of the liberal Vaud government. The entire State Council of the Canton of Vaud became effective on February 14, 1845 closed back, and Briatte became a member of the new provisional government. In March he was elected confirmation and he was henceforth officially the State Council. There he stood from 1845 to 1847 the military, in 1852, 1853 and 1855, the construction, in 1849 and 1858 to 1859 the Justice and Police, from 1850 to 1851 and from 1860 to 1861 the Department of Home Affairs, and from 1856 to 1857 the Department of Finance before. In the years 1839, 1844, 1845 and 1848 he was Minister Diet along with Druey.

1848 Briatte was first elected to the Senate and appointed in the first year as President of the "little chamber ". This he chaired from 1848 to 1850 and then in the years 1852/53, 1856/57 and 1859/60. Overall, he was thus four times President of the Council of States; No one reaches the more terms. Since 1890, members of the Council may be appointed President only once. Briatte belonged at this time, however, not by going to the Senate, but only in the years 1848-1853, 1856-1862 and 1864 bis 1867.

According to a letter cited by Jules Eytel alliance between left radicals and the liberals in 1862, this brought the Vaud government again to fall. Briatte not succeeded in re-election to the State Council. When he four years later and re-entry into the Grand Council missed, he retired from politics.

In 1820 he co-founded the cantonal section of Zofingia. In his military service from 1839 to 1845 he was a lieutenant colonel and commander of the 1st Military District Vevey and Moudon.