GIRARDIN, EMILE DE (18021881)

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GIRARDIN, EMILE DE (18021881) , French publicist, was born, not in Switzerland in 18o6 of unknown parents, but (as was recognized in 1837) in Paris in 1802, the son of General Alexandre de Girardin and of Madame Dupuy, wife of a Parisian advocate. His first publication was a novel, Emile, dealing with his

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

and early life, and appeared under the name of Girardin in 1827. He became inspector of fine arts under the Martignac ministry just before the revolution of 283o, and was an energetic and passionate journalist. Besides his

work

WORK

on the daily press he issued miscellaneous publications which attained an enormous circulation. His Journal des co'nnaissances Miles had 120,000 subscribers, and the initial edition of his Almanach de France (1834) ran to a million copies. In 1836 he inaugurated cheap journalism in a popular Conservative organ, La Presse, the subscription to which was only

forty

FORTY

francs a year. This undertaking involved him in a duel with Armand Carrel, the fatal result of which made him refuse

satisfaction

SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

to later opponents. In 1839 he was excluded from the Chamber of Deputies, to which he had been four times elected, on the plea of his foreign

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

, but was admitted in 1842. He resigned early in February 1847, and on the 24th of February 1848 sent a note to Louis Philippe demanding his resignation and the regency of the duchess of Orleans. In the Legislative Assembly he voted with the Mountain. He pressed eagerly in his

paper

PAPER
PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

for the election of Prince Louis

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

, of whom he afterwards became one of the most violent opponents. In 1856 he sold La Presse, only to resume it in 1862, but its vogue was over, and Girardin started a new journal, La Liberte, the sale of which was forbidden in the, public streets. He supported Emile 011ivier and the Liberal Empire, but plunged into vehement journalism again to advocate war against Prussia. Of his many subsequent enterprises the most successful was the purchase of Le Petit Journal, which served to advocate the policy of

Thiers

THIERS

, though he himself did not contribute. The crisis of the 16th of May 1877, when Jules Simon fell from power, made himresume his pen to attack MacMahon and the party of reaction in La France and in Le Petit Journal. Emile de Girardin married in 1831 Delphine Gay (see above), and after her death in 1855 Guillemette Josephine Brunold, countess von Tieffenbach, widow of Prince Frederick of Nassau. He was divorced from his second wife in 1872.
The long

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

of his social and political writings includes: De la presse periodique an XIX, siecle (1837); De l'instruction publique (1838) ; Etudes politiques (1838) ; De la liberte de la tresse et du journalisme (1842) ; Le Droit au travail au Luxembourg eta l'Assemblee Nationale (2 vols., 1848) ; Les Cinquante-deux (1849, &e.), a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of articles on current parliamentary questions; La Politique universelle, decrets de l'avenir (Brussels, 1852); Le Condamne du 6 mars (1867), an account of his own differences with the government in 1867 when he was fined 5000 fr. for an article in La Liberte; Le Dossier de la guerre (1877), a collection of official documents; Questions de mon temps, 1836 a 1856, articles extracted from the daily and weekly press (12 vols., 1858).

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