Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville
Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (21 September 1843 – 1 September 1924) was a French politician and author.
Biography
Born at
De Cléron represented Seine-et-Marne in the National Assembly (1871) and voted with the Right Centre. Though he was not elected to the chamber of deputies he became the righthand man of his maternal uncle
In 1891 the resignation of Henri Edouard Bocher from the administration of the Orleans estates led to the appointment of d'Haussonville as accredited representative of the comte de Paris in France. He at once set to work to strengthen the Orleanist party by recruiting from the smaller nobility the officials of the local monarchical committees. He established new Orleanist organs, and sent out lecturers with instructions to emphasize the modern and democratic principles of the comte de Paris; hut the prospects of the party were dashed in 1894 by the death of the comte de Paris.[1]
In 1904 he was admitted to the
Family
In 1865 d'Haussonville married Mlle Pauline d'Harcourt.
Works
The comte d'Haussonville published:
- Sainte-Beuve, sa vie et ses œuvres (1875)
- Études biographiques et littéraires, 2 vol. (1879 and 1888)
- Le Salon de Mme Necker (1882, 2 vols.)[2]
- Madame da La Fayette (1891)
- Madame Ackermann (1892)
- Le comte de Paris, souvenirs personnels (1895)
- La duchesse de Bourgogne et l’alliance savoyarde sous Louis XIV (4 vols., 1898–1903)
- Salaires et misères de femmes (1900)
- with G Hanotaux, Souvenirs de Mme de Maintenon (3 vols., 1902–1904)
- Après la séparation (1906)
- À l’Académie française et autour de l’Académie (1907)
- Femmes d’autrefois. Hommes d’aujourd’hui (1912)
- Ombres françaises et visions anglaises (1914)
- À Metz (1919)
References
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- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Haussonville, Joseph Othenin Bernard de Cléron, Comte d', s.v. Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 71–72.
- ISBN 9781108034838)
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