Émile de Girardin
Émile de Girardin | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Seine | |
In office 7 November 1877 – 27 April 1881 | |
Preceded by | Jules Simon |
Succeeded by | Severiano de Heredia |
Constituency | Paris (9th) |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Bas-Rhin | |
In office 1850 – 2 December 1851 | |
Preceded by | Gustave Goldenberg |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Constituency | Molsheim |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Tarn-et-Garonne | |
In office 10 July 1842 – 16 July 1846 | |
Preceded by | Bertrand Faure-d'Ère |
Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Bourjade |
Constituency | Castelsarrasin |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Creuse | |
In office 17 August 1846 – 24 February 1848 | |
Preceded by | Louis-Jean-Henry Aubusson de Soubrebost |
Succeeded by | Joseph-Edmond Fayolle |
Constituency | Bourganeuf |
In office 22 June 1834 – 9 July 1842 | |
Preceded by | Adolphe Bourgeois |
Succeeded by | Antoine Regnauld |
Constituency | Genouillac |
Personal details | |
Born | Paris, Left Republican (1877–1881) | 22 June 1802
Spouses | Wilhelmine Brunold, Gräfin von Tiefenbach
(m. 1856; div. 1872) |
Profession | Journalist, writer, publisher |
Émile de Girardin (22 June 1802 – 27 April 1881) was a French journalist, publisher and politician. He was the most successful and flamboyant French journalist of the era, presenting himself as a promoter of mass education through mass journalism. His magazines reached over a hundred thousand subscribers, and his inexpensive daily newspaper La Presse undersold the competition by half, thanks to its cheaper production and heavier advertising. Like most prominent journalists, Girardin was deeply involved in politics, and served in parliament. To his bitter disappointment, he never held high office. He was a brilliant polemicist, a master of controversy, with pungent short sentences that immediately caught the reader's attention.[1]
Biography
Early life and career
Girardin was born in Paris, the bastard son of General Alexandre de Girardin and of his mistress Madame Dupuy (née Fagnan), wife of a Parisian advocate.
His first publication was a novel,
In 1836 he inaugurated
Political career
In the Legislative Assembly he voted with
Later, Girardin pressed eagerly in his paper for the election of
Final years
Of his many subsequent enterprises the most successful was the purchase of
The long list of his social and political writings includes:[2]
- De la presse périodique au XIXe siècle (1837)
- De l'instruction publique (1838)
- Études politiques (1838)
- De la liberté de la presse et du journalisme (1842)
- Le Droit au travail au Luxembourg et à l'Assemblée Nationale (2 vols, 1848)
- Les Cinquante-deux (1849, etc.), a series of articles on current parliamentary questions
- La Politique universelle, décrets de l'avenir (Brussels, 1852)
- Le Condamné du 6 mars (1867), an account of his own differences with the government in 1867 when he was fined 5000 fr. for an article in La Liberté
- Le Dossier de la guerre (1877), a collection of official documents
- Questions de mon temps, 1836 à 1846, articles extracted from the daily and weekly press (12 vols., 1858).
See also
Notes
- ^ Joanna Richardson, "Emile de Girardin 1806–1881," History Today (1976) 26#12 pp 811–17.
- ^ a b c d e f public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Girardin, Émile de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 46. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ISBN 978-1-883479-20-6.
- ^ "A Review of Le Socialisme et l'Impot" by Émile de Girardin" contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 10 (International Publishers: New York, 1978) pp. 326–337.
- ^ "A Review of Le Socialisme et l'Impot" contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 10, pp. 336–337.
Further reading
- O'Brien, Laura. "Monsieur Vipérin: Émile de Girardin and the republican satirical press in 1848." French History 30.2 (2016): 197–217.
- Richardson, Joanna. "Emile de Girardin 1806–1881," History Today (1976) 26#12 pp 811–17. online; focused on his notorious private life
- Zelden, Theodore. France, 1848–1945: Volume II: Intellect, Taste, and Anxiety (1977) pp 494–97.