Charles de Freycinet

43^rd Prime Minister of France
Charles de Freycinet

In office December 28, 1879 – September 23, 1880
Preceded by	William Waddington
Succeeded by	Jules Ferry
46^th Prime Minister of France
In office January 30, 1882 – August 7, 1882
Preceded by	Léon Gambetta
Succeeded by	Charles Duclerc
51^st Prime Minister of France
In office January 7, 1886 – December 16, 1886
Preceded by	Henri Brisson
Succeeded by	René Goblet
57^th Prime Minister of France
In office March 17, 1890 – February 27, 1892
Preceded by	Pierre Tirard
Succeeded by	Émile Loubet

Born	November 14, 1828
Died	May 14, 1923
Political party	None

Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (November 14, 1828 - May 14, 1923) was a French statesman and President of the Council during the Third Republic, part of the Opportunist Republicans faction. The Prime Minister of France ( Premier ministre français) in Fifth Republic is the functional Head of the government and Council of Ministers Events 1065 - Westminster Abbey is Consecrated. 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year William Henry Waddington (11 December 1826 - 13 January 1894 was a French Statesman who was Prime Minister in 1879 Jules François Camille Ferry (5 April 1832 17 March 1893 was a French statesman and ardent imperialist Early life Born in Saint-Dié, The Prime Minister of France ( Premier ministre français) in Fifth Republic is the functional Head of the government and Council of Ministers Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Léon Gambetta (2 April 1838 Cahors, Lot - 31 December 1882 Paris) was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War Charles Théodore Eugène Duclerc (9 November 1812 - 21 July 1888 was a French politician of the Third Republic who served as prime minister from 1882 to 1883 The Prime Minister of France ( Premier ministre français) in Fifth Republic is the functional Head of the government and Council of Ministers Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Eugène Henri Brisson (31 July 1835 14 April 1912 was a French statesman Prime minister of France for a period in 1885-1886 and again in 1898 René Goblet (26 November 1828 - 13 September 1905 was a French Politician, Prime Minister of France for a period in 1886-1887 The Prime Minister of France ( Premier ministre français) in Fifth Republic is the functional Head of the government and Council of Ministers Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Pierre Emmanuel Tirard (27 September 1827 - 4 November 1893 was a French Politician. Émile François Loubet (31 December 1838 - 20 December 1929 was a French Politician and the 7th President of France. Events 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca The year 1828 ( MDCCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1533 - Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca The year 1828 ( MDCCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Prime Minister of France ( Premier ministre français) in Fifth Republic is the functional Head of the government and Council of Ministers The French Third Republic (in French, La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe The Opportunist Republicans (Républicains opportunistes was a term given to a fraction of the French Republicans who considered after the proclamation of the Third

1 Early career
2 In Government
3 Minister of War
4 Writings
5 Freycinet's 1st Ministry, 28 December 1879 - 22 September 1880
6 Freycinet's 2nd Ministry, 30 January - 7 August 1882
7 Freycinet's 3rd Ministry, 7 January - 11 December 1886
8 Freycinet's 4th Ministry, 17 March 1890 - 27 February 1892

Early career

He was born at Foix (Ariège) and educated at the École Polytechnique. Foix (fwa is a commune, the capital of the Ariège département in France. Ariège ( Occitan: Arièja) is a department in southwestern France named after the Ariège River. For other Écoles Polytechniques see École Polytechnique de Montréal and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He entered the government service as a mining engineer (see X-Mines). The Corps of Mines (in French Corps des Mines) is the foremost of the great technical corps of the French state. In 1858 he was appointed traffic manager to the Compagnie de chemins de fer du Midi, a post in which he showed a remarkable talent for organization, and in 1862 returned to the engineering service, attaining in 1886 the rank of inspector-general. Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday He was sent on several special scientific missions, including one to the UK, on which he wrote a notable Mémoire sur le travail des femmes et des enfants dans les manufactures de l'Angleterre (1867).

On the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he offered his services to Léon Gambetta, was appointed prefect of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, and in October became chief of the military cabinet. Year 1870 ( MDCCCLXX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Léon Gambetta (2 April 1838 Cahors, Lot - 31 December 1882 Paris) was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War It was mainly his powers of organization that enabled Gambetta to raise army after army to oppose the invading Germans. He showed himself a strategist of no mean order; but the policy of dictating operations to the generals in the field was not attended with happy results. The friction between him and General d'Aurelle de Paladines resulted in the loss of the advantage temporarily gained at Orleans, and he was responsible for the campaign in the east, which ended in the destruction of Bourbaki's army. Louis Jean-Baptiste d'Aurelle de Paladines ( 9 January 1804 - 17 December 1877) was a French General. Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki ( April 22, 1816 &ndash September 27, 1897) was a French general

In Government

In 1871 he published a defence of his administration under the title of La Guerre en province pendant le siège de Paris. Year 1871 ( MDCCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He entered the Senate in 1876 as a follower of Gambetta, and in December 1877 became minister of public works in the Dufaure cabinet. Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (4 December 1798 28 June 1881 was a French Statesman. He carried a great scheme for the gradual acquisition of the railways by the state and the construction of new lines at a cost of three milliards, and for the development of the canal system at a further cost of one milliard. He retained his post in the ministry of Waddington, whom he succeeded in December 1879 as president of the council and minister for foreign affairs. William Henry Waddington (11 December 1826 - 13 January 1894 was a French Statesman who was Prime Minister in 1879 He passed an amnesty for the communards, but in attempting to steer a middle course on the question of the religious associations, lost Gambetta's support, and resigned in September 1880. Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year

In January 1882 he again became president of the council and minister for foreign affairs. Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common His refusal to join England in the bombardment of Alexandria was the death-knell of French influence in Egypt. Alexandria ( Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه Eskendereyya; Standard Arabic: ar الإسكندرية Al-Iskandariyya; Ἀλεξάνδρεια This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. He attempted to compromise by occupying the Isthmus of Suez, but the vote of credit was rejected in the Chamber by 417 votes to 75, and the ministry resigned. He returned to office in April 1885 as foreign minister in Henri Brisson's cabinet, and retained that post when, in January 1886, he succeeded to the premiership. Eugène Henri Brisson (31 July 1835 14 April 1912 was a French statesman Prime minister of France for a period in 1885-1886 and again in 1898

He came to power with an ambitious programme of internal reform; but apart from settling the question of the exiled pretenders, his successes were chiefly in the sphere of colonial extension. In spite of his unrivalled skill as a parliamentary tactician, he failed to keep his party together, and was defeated on December 3 1886. Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French In the following year, after two unsuccessful attempts to construct new ministries, he stood for the presidency of the republic; but the radicals, to whom his opportunism was distasteful, turned the scale against him by transferring the votes to Sadi Carnot. For the French physicist and uncle of Marie François see Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot.

Minister of War

In April 1888 he became minister of war in Charles Floquet's cabinet--the first civilian since 1848 to hold that office. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Charles Thomas Floquet (2 October 1828 - 18 January 1896 was a French statesman His services to France in this capacity were the crowning achievement of his life, and he enjoyed the conspicuous honour of holding his office without a break for five years through as many successive administrations--those of Floquet and Pierre Tirard, his own fourth ministry (March 1890-February 1892), and the Loubet and Ribot ministries. Pierre Emmanuel Tirard (27 September 1827 - 4 November 1893 was a French Politician. Émile François Loubet (31 December 1838 - 20 December 1929 was a French Politician and the 7th President of France. Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot (7 February 1842 13 January 1923 was a French politician four times Prime Minister. To him were due the introduction of the three-years' service and the establishment of a general staff, a supreme council of war, and the army commands. His premiership was marked by heated debates on the clerical question, and it was a hostile vote on his Bill against the religious associations that caused the fall of his cabinet. He failed to clear himself entirely of complicity in the Panama scandals, and in January 1893 resigned the ministry of war. The Panama scandals (also known as the "Panama Canal Scandal" were a corruption affair that broke out in the French Third Republic in 1892 linked to the building Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

In November 1898 he once more became minister of war in the Dupuy cabinet, but resigned office on May 6, 1899. Charles Alexandre Dupuy (5 November 1851 - 1923 was a French statesman three times prime minister Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

Writings

He published, besides the works already mentioned:

Traité de mécanique rationnelle (1858)
De l'analyse infinitésimale (1860, revised ed. , 1881)
Des pentes économiques en chemin de fer (1861)
Emploi des eaux d'égout en agriculture (1869)
Principes de l'assainissement des villes (1870)
Traité d'assainissement industriel (1870)
Essai sur la philosophie des sciences (1896)
La Question d'Égypte (1905)
some remarkable Pensées contributed to the Contemporain under the pseudonym of "Alceste. "

In 1882 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890 to the French Academy in succession to Émile Augier. Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common L'Académie française, or the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. Guillaume Victor Émile Augier ( September 17, 1820 &ndash October 25, 1889) was a French Dramatist. He died in 1923. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Freycinet's 1st Ministry, 28 December 1879 - 22 September 1880

Charles de Freycinet - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jean Joseph Frédéric Farre - Minister of War
Charles Lepère - Minister of the Interior and Worship
Pierre Magnin - Minister of Finance
Jules Cazot - Minister of Justice
Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry - Minister of Marine and Colonies
Jules Ferry - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
Henri Varroy - Minister of Public Works
Adolphe Cochery - Minister of Posts and Telegraphs
Pierre Tirard - Minister of Agriculture and Commerce

Changes

17 May 1880 - Ernest Constans succeeds Lepère as Minister of the Interior and Worship. Events 1065 - Westminster Abbey is Consecrated. 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 66 - Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica. 1236 - The Lithuanians Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Early Modern France Chief Ministers of the French Kings Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu 1624-1642 Jules Cardinal The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of France, is the cabinet minister responsible for the Foreign relations of France. The Minister of Defence ( Ministère de la Défense) is the French Government cabinet member charged with running the Military of France This page is a list of French interior ministers. Ministers of the Interior 1790-present See also List of Prime Ministers This page is a list of French finance ministers, including the equivalent positions of Superintendent of Finances and Controller-General of Finances This page is a list of French justice ministers. Under the Ancien régime, the French minister responsible for the judiciary was the Chancellor Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry ( 26 August 1815 - 21 October 1887) was a French Admiral and statesman One of France 's Secretaries of State under the Ancien régime was entrusted with control of the French Navy ( Secretary of State of the Navy (France Jules François Camille Ferry (5 April 1832 17 March 1893 was a French statesman and ardent imperialist Early life Born in Saint-Dié, This page is a list of French education ministers. A governmental position overseeing public education was first created in France in 1802 Louis Adolphe Cochery ( August 26, 1819 &ndash October 13, 1900) was a French politician and journalist Pierre Emmanuel Tirard (27 September 1827 - 4 November 1893 was a French Politician. Events 1521 - Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for Treason. Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Jean Antoine Ernest Constans (1833–1913 was a French politician and colonial administrator.

Freycinet's 2nd Ministry, 30 January - 7 August 1882

Charles de Freycinet - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jean-Baptiste Billot - Minister of War
René Goblet - Minister of the Interior
Léon Say - Minister of Finance
Gustave Humbert - Minister of Justice and Worship
Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry - Minister of Marine and Colonies
Jules Ferry - Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
François de Mahy - Minister of Agriculture
Henri Varroy - Minister of Public Works
Adolphe Cochery - Minister of Posts and Telegraphs
Pierre Tirard - Minister of Commerce

Freycinet's 3rd Ministry, 7 January - 11 December 1886

Charles de Freycinet - President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Georges Boulanger - Minister of War
Ferdinand Sarrien - Minister of the Interior
Sadi Carnot - Minister of Finance
Charles Demôle - Minister of Justice
Théophile Aube - Minister of Marine and Colonies
René Goblet - Minister of Public Instruction, Fine Arts, and Worship
Jules Develle - Minister of Agriculture
Charles Baïhaut - Minister of Public Works
Félix Granet - Minister of Posts and Telegraphs
Édouard Locroy - Minister of Commerce and Industry