Gustave de Beaumont

Gustave Auguste de la Bonninière de Beaumont ( born February 6, 1802 in Beaumont- la- Chartres, Sarthe, † March 31, 1866 in Tours ) was a French journalist and politician.

Life

Beaumont was the last child of the Duke Jules de Beaumont and Rose Préau de la Baraudière in the Château de La Borde in Beaumont- la- Chartres (Sarthe ), in the Loire Valley, who was born, where he spent his childhood.

From 1826 until his journey to America Alexis de Tocqueville ( 1831-1832 ) he worked as a prosecutor at the District Court of Versailles. In 1836 he married Clémentine de Lafayette. From 1839 he was elected several times to the deputies. In the republican Constituent Assembly of 1848 he held the position of Vice President and was a member of the commission to draft a new constitution. He was in the same year, French Ambassador in London, 1849, he was called to Vienna before it on December 2, 1851 when a coup d'etat of Napoleon III. was arrested and retired from politics.

His journalistic work includes writings on America - particularly regarding the issue of slavery - which he co-authored with his traveling companion, Alexis de Tocqueville, as well as an early socio-political study of Ireland. His novel, Marie; ou, L' Esclavage aux États -Unis (1835 ) is considered the earliest example of a so-called passing novel.

Work

• You système pénitentiaire aux Etats-Unis et son application en France, along with Alexis de Tocqueville (1832 )
• Marie ou l' esclavage aux États -Unis. Tableau de moeurs américaines. (1835 )
• L' Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse. (1839 )