Jean-Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac

Jean -Baptiste Sylvère Gay, vicomte de Martignac ( born June 20, 1778 in Bordeaux, † April 3, 1832 in Paris) was during the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy between the end of the First French Empire and the July Revolution a moderate royalist French statesman and Minister of the Interior.

Biography

In 1798 he became secretary of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, after he had served for a while in the army. He wrote some literary pieces and produced stage plays. He was the first prosecutor in Bordeaux and then in 1818, Advocate General at the royal court. In 1819 he was Attorney General in Limoges and in 1821 was nominated for the Marmande deputy of the Chamber of Deputies, where he supported the ultra-royalist views of Villèle. In 1822, he became state adviser conseiller d' État and accompanied during the French invasion of Spain in 1823, Louis -Antoine de Bourbon as a consultant to Spain. In 1824 he was appointed directeur général Vicomte and was de l' enregistrement et des domaines. Through his political experience, his first ultra-royalist views, living in a moderate direction. After the fall of Villèle he was selected by Charles X. to enforce the new policy of compromise. On January 4, 1828, he was appointed Minister of the Interior and was the actual head of government. As a measure of liberalization he abolished censorship of the press. However, he had between numerous factions split, Abgeordnetetenkammer and monarchs a difficult position, since his attitude often unclear permanent and swayed his opinion. Martignac tried to introduce a decentralization of administration and the introduction of self-government of municipalities and departments. But this law came from the Abgeordnetetenkammer rejected. He was replaced by Jules de Polignac by the growing dissatisfaction of the king. He agreed in 1830 with the majority in the Chamber of Deputies against the so-called " Juliordonnanzen " the king in which dissolved the Chamber of Deputies, set the election census upwards and press freedom was further restricted. In his last public appearance in December 1830, he defended Polignac in the Chamber of Peers.

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