Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard | |
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Councillor of the Paris Commune for the 4th arrondissement | |
In office 20 July 1789 – 10 August 1792 | |
Personal details | |
Born | philosopher | 21 June 1763
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (21 June 1763 – 2 September 1845) was a French statesman and
Biography
Early life
He was born at Sompuis, near Vitry-le-François (in modern-day Marne), the son of Anthony Royer, a small businessman. His mother, Angélique Perpétue Collard, had a reputation for strong character and great piety.[1] His younger brother, Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard, was a physician and pioneer in the field of psychiatry, at one point serving as chief physician at Charenton Asylum.[2]
Royer-Collard was sent at 12 to the college of Chaumont of which his uncle, Father Paul Collard, was director. He subsequently followed his uncle to Saint-Omer, where he studied mathematics.
Career
At the outbreak of the
His sympathies were now with the
It was at this period that he developed his legitimist opinions and entered into communication with the Comte de Provence (
From this time dates his long association with François Guizot. Royer-Collard himself was supervisor of the press under the first restoration. From 1815 onwards he sat as deputy for Marne in the chamber. As president of the commission of public instruction from 1815 to 1820 he checked the pretensions of the clerical party, the immediate cause of his retirement being an attempt to infringe the rights of the University of Paris by awarding diplomas, independent of university examinations, to the teaching fraternity of the Christian Brothers. Royer-Collard's acceptance of the legitimist principle did not prevent a faithful adhesion to the social revolution effected in 1789, and he protested in 1815, in 1820, and again under the Monarchy of July against laws of exception.
He was the moving spirit of the "
Personal life
Royer-Collard married Augustine Marie Rosalie de Forges de Chãtaeubrun on 20 October 1800. They had four children, two of whom predeceased them.[8]
He died at his estate of
Further reading
- Prosper de Barante. (1861) Vie politique de M. Royer Collard, ses discours et ses écrits (2 vols).
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911) "Royer-Collard, Pierre Paul". Encyclopædia Britannica. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 794.
- Doria, Corinne, (2018) Un philosophe entre deux révolutions. Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763-1845). Presses Universitaires de Rennes, p. 350.
References
- The Quarterly Review. 173. London, England: John Murray: 216.
- ISBN 9780226301617.
- ^ Craiutu, Aurelian (Autumn 1999). "Tocqueville and the Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires (Guizot, Royer-Collard, Remusat)". History of Political Thought. 20 (3). Exeter, England: Imprint Academic Ltd.: 456–493.
- ISBN 1-55273-011-5.
- ISBN 978-1-84822-633-3
- ^ Herbermann, Charles George; Pace, Edward Aloysius; Pallen, Condé Bénoist; Shahan, Thomas Joseph; Wynne, John Joseph, eds. (1911). The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church. Vol. 13. New York City: Robert Appleton Company. p. 212.
- ^ Herbermann, et al., pg. 214
- ^ Phillippe, Adrienne (1857). Royer-Collard, sa vie publique, sa vie privée, sa famille (in French). Paris, France: Michel Lévy Frères. p. 41.