Pierre Tirard

Pierre Emmanuel Tirard ( born September 27, 1827 in Geneva, † November 4, 1893 in Paris) was a French politician and twice Prime Minister (December 12, 1887 to April 3, 1888 and February 22, 1889 to 17 March 1890).

Life

The born to French parents in Switzerland, studied first in his native town and worked as a structural engineer later. After five years as a government official, he decided to become a jeweler. His stated opposition to the Second Empire in 1869 reached its climax in the support of a radical opposition candidates to Ollivier. For this he was mayor of the 11th arrondissement of Paris and member of the Chamber of Deputies for the department of Seine. Nominated by the Paris Commune as a candidate for the National Assembly, he protested against the tyranny of the Central Committee. After the escape from Paris he was a member of the National Assembly at Versailles and took there the extreme left.

1876 ​​and 1877 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris again and took there the 1st arrondissement. He dealt mainly with financial matters and was briefly president of the Customs Commission before he was appointed by Prime Minister William Henry Waddington as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in March, 1879. This ministerial office he held then in the cabinets of Prime Minister Charles de Saulces de Freycinet ( 1879-1880 ) and Jules Ferry ( 1880-1881 ). In the second cabinet Freycinet (1882 ), he was Minister of Commerce and later finance minister in the cabinets of Prime Minister Charles Duclerc ( 1882-1883 ), Armand Fallières (1883 ) and Ferry ( 1883-1885 ).

As Carnot President of the Republic in 1887, was commissioned him this with the formation of a government. He had to clarify the Wilson scandal, which led to the resignation of President Jules Grévy, and at the same time proceed against the revisionist agitation of General Georges Ernest Boulanger. His refusal to amend the Constitution of 1875 led to his resignation on March 30, 1888. During his first government, he was also Minister of Finance. A year later he became prime minister again and decided Boulanger and his key supporters in front of the Supreme Court to bring. The survey before the Supreme Court, however, was foiled by the flight of General Boulanger. He left the Philippe, Duke of Orleans, arrest, had paid an incognito visit to France. On March 15, 1890, he stepped over the issue of French -Turkish trade agreement back as prime minister. In his second government, he was also Minister of Trade and Industry, and from March 14, 1889 also Colonial Secretary.

In the cabinet of Alexandre Ribot ( 1892-1893 ), he replaced Maurice Rouvier as finance minister, and died in that office in Paris.

  • Prime Minister (France)
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1827
  • Died in 1893
  • Man
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