MARTIGNAC, JEAN BAPTISTE SYLVERE GAY, VICOMTE DE (1778-183z)

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MARTIGNAC, JEAN BAPTISTE SYLVERE GAY, VICOMTE DE (1778-183z) , French statesman, was born at Bordeaux on the loth of June 1778. In 1798 he acted as secretary to Sieyes; then after serving for a while in the army, he turned to literature, producing several light plays. Under the Empire he practised with success as an advocate at Bordeaux, where in 1818 he became advocate-general of the tour royale. In 1819 he was appointed procureur-general at

Limoges

LIMOGES

, and in 1821 was returned for

Marmande

MARMANDE

to the Chamber of Deputies, where he supported the policy of

Villele

VILLELE, JEAN BAPTISTE GUILLAUME MARIE ANNE SERAPHIN, COMTE DE (1773–1854)

. In 1822 he was appointed councillor of state, in 1823 he accompanied the duc d'

Angouleme

ANGOULEME
ANGOULEME, CHARLES DE VALOIS, DUKE OF (1573-1650)

to Spain as civil commissary; in 1824 he was created a viscount and appointed director-general of registration. In contact with

practical

PRACTICAL

politics his ultra-royalist views were gradually modified in the direction of the Doctrinaires, and on the fall of

Villele

VILLELE, JEAN BAPTISTE GUILLAUME MARIE ANNE SERAPHIN, COMTE DE (1773–1854)

he was selected by Charles X. to carry out the new policy of compromise. On the 4th of January 1828 he was appointed minister of the interior, and, though not bearing the title of president, became the virtual head of the cabinet. He succeeded in passing the act abolishing the

press

PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

censorship, and in persuading the king to sign the ordinances of the 16th of June 1828 on the

Jesuits

JESUITS

and the little seminaries. He was exposed to attack from both the extreme Left and the extreme Right,and when in April 1829 a coalition of these groups defeated him in the chamber, Charles X., who had never believed in the policy he represented, replaced him by the prince de Polignac. In

March

1830 Martignac voted with the

majority

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

for the address protesting against the famous ordinances; but during the revolution that followed he remained true to his legitimist principles. His last public

appearance

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

was in defence of Polignac in the Chamber of Peers in December 1830. He died on the 3rd of April 1832.
Martignac published Bordeaux au mois de Mars 1815 (Paris, 1830), and an Essai historique sur les revolutions d'Espagne et l'interventson francaise de 1823 (Paris, 1832). See also E. Daudet, Le Ministere de M. de Martignac (Paris, 1875).

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