Anti-Bonapartist Elections to the Academie Francaise during the Second Empire
| Autor: | Robert W. Reichert |
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| Rok vydání: | 1963 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Modern History. 35:33-45 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5358 0022-2801 |
| Popis: | T HE Academie franSaise was, for the eighteen-year period from 1852 until early 1870, a principal source of opposition to the government of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.' Election of new members to the Academie following the coup d'e'tat on December 2, 1851 was motivated in the majority of cases by a desire to vex the new Caesar. A list of the Academie's thirty-two elections during this period-three of them following the coup of 1851 and twenty-nine after the empire had been re-established in December 1852-reads like a catalogue of the leading opponents of the new regime. Of these thirty-two members, only seven-the poet Alfred de Musset, and the dramatists Ernest Legouve, Fran~ois Ponsard, Emile Augier, Jules Sandeau, Octave Feuillet, and Joseph Autranwere elected on strictly literary grounds. And even here, not one of these seven was the official candidate supported by the center of government in the Tuileries. In several other elections, those of the mathematician and scientist Jean Baptiste Biot, of the dramatist Camille Doucet, the philosopher-theologian Pere Gratry, and the physiologist Claude Bernard, the candidacies resulted from a faute de mieux or from the need for compromise between dissident factions within the Academie. But in every one of the other elections, beginning shortly after the coup until the Academie, following the completion |
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