Remusat - 19th Century Encyclopedia Entries



Nordisk Familjebok 1876-1899, Meyer 1885-1892


Nordisk Familjebok 1876-1899, Article : Remusat (1889)
Remusat, Charles François Marie de, Count, French statesman, son of the former, born in 1797, studied classic literature, history and law at the University of Paris, began his activity as an author in 1820 with a publication on the jury, and from 1820 to 1830 was a correspondent of "Lycee français", "Globe" and "Courrier français" . Belonging to the Liberal Party, in 1830 he was elected by the city of Toulouse into the Chamber of Deputees. He was appointed minister of the interior on March 1st 1840, but had to resign when the cabinet Thiers fell on October 29th that year. In the remaining years of the July Monarchy, Remusat was one of the leaders of the opposition against Guizot. He was member of the National Assembly in the Second Republic (1848-1851), but, as an opponent to Louis Napoleon, had to go into exile after the coup d'etat of December 2nd 1851. He was given permission to return to Paris in 1859, where he lived as a private man until the fall of the Empire. Appointed minister of foreign affairs on August 2nd 1871 by his friend Thiers (after Jules Favre). Under the most difficult circumstances he guided France's foreign policy, making great progress, but had to resign in May 1873, when Thiers was toppled. In October 1873 elected into the National Assembly, Remusat joined the Left Center. He died in 1875.
Remusat was an outstanding political speaker and statesman, and simultaneously active as an author in various fields. Since 1830 for several decades he was one of the foremost correspondents of "Revue des deux mondes". Among his publications are noteworthy "Du pauperisme et de la charite legale" (1840), "Essais de philosophie" (1842), "Abelard" (1845), "De la philosophie allemande" (1845), "Passe et present" (1847), "Saint-Anselme de Cantorbery" (1854), "Critiques litteraires" (1856), "Bacon" (1858), "Politique liberale" (1860), "Channing" (1861", "Philosophie religieuse" (1864), "L'Angleterre au XVIIIe siecle" (1865), "John Wesley et le methodisme" (1870), "Histoire de la philosophie en Angleterre" (1875). Remusat, who in 1846 was elected into the Academie Française, translated five of Schiller's tragedies, and himself wrote a drama, Abelard (1877).

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Meyer's Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, Article : Wilson
Remusat, Charles François Marie, Comte de, French statesman, born on March 14th 1797 in Paris, in 1819 became advocate, in 1830 deputee, in the beginning joined the Doctrinaires under Guizot, but later joined the Left Center. After having functioned as an undersecretary in the cabinet of September 6th 1836, in Thiers' cabinet of March 1st 1840 he was given the portfolio of the interior. After the resignation of the cabinet he joined the dynastic opposition, and in 1848 he was elected into the National Assembly by Toulouse, where he belonged to the Club of the Rue de Poitiers. Begause of his protest against the coup d'etat expelled from France on January 9th 1852, he went to Brussels, but already in September was granted permission to return. On August 2nd 1871 his old friend Thiers charged him with the ministry of foreign affairs. In 1873 in a by-election in Paris Remusat was recommended as a candidate for the National Assembly. His defeat also lead to the toppling of Thiers on May 23rd 1873. Remusat died on June 6th 1875 in Paris.
Among his publications are to be mentioned : "Essais de philosophie" (Paris 1842, 2 vols.), because of which he was elected into the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, "Abelard" (1845, 2 vols.), and "De la philosophie allemande" (1846), because of which he was made member of the Academie Française, "Saint Anselme de Cantorbery" (1853, 2nd ed. 1868); "L'Angleterre au XVIII. siecle" (1856, 2 vols.); "Critiques et etudes litteraires" (2nd ed. 1857); "Bacon, sa vie, son temps, sa philosophie" (1857, 2nd ed. 1858); "Politique liberale, ou fragments pour servir a la defense de la Revolution française" (1860, 2nd ed. 1875); "Channing, sa vie et ses oeuvres" (1857, 2nd ed. 1862); "Philosophie religieuse. De la theologie naturelle en France et en Angleterre" (1864); "Lord Herbert de Cherbury" (1874); "Histoire de la philosophie en Angleterre depuis Bacon jusqu;a Locke" (1875, 2 vols.). Two dramas were published posthumously : "Abelard" (1877) and "La Saint-Barthelemy" (1878), and the "Correspondance pendant les premieres annees de la Restauration" (1883-1887, 6 vols.)

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