Camille Pelletan

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Camille Pelletan, French politician and journalist
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Charles Camille Pelletan (28 June 1846 – 4 June 1915) was a

Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party
, created in 1902.

Biography

Pelletan was born in Paris, the son of Eugène Pelletan (1813–1884), a writer of some distinction and a noted opponent of the Second Empire.[1]

Camille Pelletan was educated in Paris, passed as licentiate in laws, and studied at the

Opportunist Republicans" who continued the policy of Léon Gambetta.[1]
} He was parliamentary editor for Le Rappel until 1871, when he was succeeded by Alfred Gaulier.[2] In 1880 he became editor of Justice, and worked with success to bring about a revision of the sentences passed on the
département, being reelected in 1889, 1893 and 1898; and he was repeatedly chosen as reporter to the various bureaus.[1]

During the

Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party at its creation in 1902, and taking place at its left-wing.[citation needed
]

He was nominated as

Minister of Marine in the Bloc des gauches cabinet of Émile Combes (June 1902 to January 1905), but his administration was severely criticized, notably by Jean Marie Antoine de Lanessan and other naval experts. During the great sailors strike at Marseille in 1904 he showed pronounced sympathy with the socialistic aims and methods of the strikers, and a strong feeling was aroused that his Radical sympathies tended to a serious weakening of the navy and to destruction of discipline. A somewhat violent controversy resulted, in the course of which Pelletan's indiscreet speeches did him no good; and he became a common subject for ill-natured caricatures.[3]
Camille Pelletan
the year before he died

On the fall of the Combes ministry he became less prominent in French politics.

senator
elected in the Bouches du Rhône electoral district.

Camille Pelletan's name was given to the

Cartel des gauches
(Left-Wings Cartel).

The Pelletan's family tree includes 11 parliamentaries, among whom are Georges Bonnet and Michel Debré.

US Naval officer Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske wrote of Pelletan in his autobiography From Midshipman to Rear Admiral, edited in 1919, that:

Instead of being a friend of the people, as so many French people thought, Camille Pelletan by his course was more dangerous to them than all the German spies in France put together. Camille Pelletan's course did more to break down the defense of the French Republic than a half a million German troops could have done.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911, p. 69.
  2. ^ Robert, Adolphe; Cougny, Gaston (1889–1891), "GAULIER (ALFRED-NICOLAS)", in Edgar Bourloton (ed.), Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français (1789–1889) (in French), retrieved 2018-01-26
  3. ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 69–70.
  4. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 70.
  5. ^ Bradley Allen Fiske (1919). From Midshipman to Rear-Admiral. Century Company.

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