Agénor Bardoux
(unknown photographer, unknown date, probably before 1880).
Agénor Bardoux (15 January 1829, Bourges, Cher – 23 November 1897, Paris) was a French statesman and republican.
Early life
A native of Bourges, he was born on 15 January 1829. He was a son of Jacques Bardoux (1795–1871) and the former Thérèse Pignet (1807–1883).[1]
Career
Bardoux was established as an
minister of public instruction (December 1877) and proposed various republican laws, notably on compulsory primary education. He resigned in 1879. He was not re-elected in 1881 but in December 1882 was named senator for life.[1]
Personal life
On 15 July 1873, he married Clémence Villa (1847–1939) in Montpellier. She was a daughter of Achille Villa and the former Sophie Bimar. Together, they had at least one son:[1]
- Jacques Bardoux (1874–1959), the French senator and academic who married Henriette Marie Geneviève Picot.[1]
Bardoux died in Paris on 23 November 1897.[1]
Descendants
Through Jacques, he was a great-grandfather of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (b. 1926) was president of France from 1974 until 1981.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d e One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bardoux, Agénor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 396.
- ^ Chapin, Emmanuelle Sandrine (2011). Discriminating Democracy: Theater and Republican Cultural Policy in France, 1878-1893. Stanford University. p. 42. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
