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Adélaïde Édouard Lelièvre de la Grange , Marquis de la Grange et de Fourilles , is a French politician born on December 16 , 1796in Paris and died on January 17 , 1876 in Paris.

Son of Adélaïde Blaise François Lelièvre de la Grange and Adélaïde Victoire Hall , grandson of the painter Pierre Adolphe Hall , by his mother.

He marries theJune 5, 1827, in Paris, Constance Magdeleine Louise Nompar de Caumont 2 , daughter of François Philibert Bertrand Nompar de Caumont and Marie Constance de Lamoignon, herself daughter of Chrétien-François de Lamoignon de Basville .

He dies onJanuary 17, 1876, at 3.30 p.m., at his home located at 29 rue Barbet de Jouy, in Paris 7th. His death was declared the next day by Mathieu Pierre Étienne, Count of Luppé, and by Pierre Jean Paul Émile de Label, Viscount of Lambel, his nephews.

His father, general of the Empire, destined him very early for a military career.

Thus, after brilliant studies at the Lycée Napoléon , he entered, in 1813, the regiment of honor guards . The following year, he became marshal of the house in the 2nd company of musketeers , commanded by his father, before being appointed, in 1816, captain on the staff of the royal guard.

Political career

Supported by the liberal party as a candidate for deputy, in 1834, in the electoral college of the arrondissement of Verneuil, department of Eure , he obtained a large number of votes and did not bow to the ministerial candidate until after a tie 4 .

Candidate for deputy onNovember 4, 1837, in the 6th college of the Gironde , he was elected by 108 votes out of 193 voters, for 228 registered. He was successively re-elected:

theMarch 2, 1839, by 126 votes out of 204 voters,

theJuly 9, 1842, by 170 votes out of 225 voters for 282 registered, against Sieur Merlet, credited with 65 votes,

theAugust 1 , 1846, by 175 votes out of 273 voters for 300 registered, against the Sieur de Caumont, credited with 90 votes 8 .

Édouard de Barthélémy , member of the committee of learned societies, in his obituary, explains his election as deputy for the arrondissement of Blaye , in 1837, by geographical proximity, first of all, but also by his political independence despite the various proposals of the government of Louis-Philippe 5 .

He sits continuously in the Chamber of Deputies until 1848, sitting alternately in the majority and the opposition 5 .

In 1841, he came out against the bill relating to the fortifications of the city of Paris 9 . Concerning the question of sugars, put to the deputies in 1843, he also came out against 10 .

theMay 25, 1844, he was appointed member of the commission in charge of the bill on counterfeiting in France of works published in Sardinia following an agreement concluded between the French and Sardinian governments aimed at guaranteeing the right of property in the two kingdoms 11 .

He is elected, on the first ballot, at the meeting ofDecember 29, 1845, permanent secretary of the chamber of peers and admitted after verification of titles 12 .

Following death, resignation or cancellation of elections, he was elected, during the year 1846, to the General Council of the Gironde , in the canton of Bourg 13 . Re-elected in 1852 for the canton of Saint-Savin 14 , he was appointed by decree of theAugust 7following, vice-president of the council 15 . By decree ofAugust 12, 1863, he was named vice-president of the council for the session of 1863 16 . He will retain his mandate until 1863.

He was again a deputy from 1849 to 1851, sitting on the right.

By decree ofJanuary 26, 1852, He was appointed, by Louis-Napoleon , senator 17 , 18 and remained so until 1870.

theJune 10, 1857, he presented a report to the Senate on the law relating to the sanitation and cultivation of the moors of Gascony 19 , theJune 1 , 1859, on the law relating to fishing regulations in the Bidasoa 20 .

theMarch 9, 1861, he came out in favor of the draft address initiated by the Emperor 21 . He confirms his position, theMarch 5, 1862, as to the address ballot held in response to the Crown Speech .

theJanuary 8, 1864, he was appointed vice-president of the 4th office of the Senate and, under this office, member of the commission responsible for examining laws relating to the establishment of surcharges, the delimitation of municipalities, loans and extraordinary taxation 23 .

theMay 9, 1868, it came out against the conclusions of the commission tending not to refer the law relating to the Press to a new deliberation by the Legislative Body 24 .

Using his popularity in Gironde, he supports, in the month ofmay 1869, the candidacy of his nephew, the Count of Luppé, to the legislative body. Addressing the voters of the 4th constituency, he took advantage of this call for votes to mention the great difficulties he had been encountering for six years with the government, evoking a “stubborn war” waged against him 25 .

He proposes various amendments aiming at modifying the mode of appointment of the senators, imposing the holding of this choice of the emperor, in the council of ministers 26 (1870), the mode of appointment of the president of the Senate, the vice-presidents, secretaries and grand-referendary, transferring this competence from the emperor to the Senate itself 26 (1870).

Literary career

He is one of the founders and collaborators of the newspaper L'Europe littéraire: journal de la literature nationale et eranger 27 , a weekly review created in 1833.

In 1839, he was director of the Society of Antiquaries of Normandy 28 .

In 1843, he was a member of the historical committee of the Ministry of Public Instruction and of the Society for the History of France 29 .

theNovember 18, 1843, he was presented before the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres to fill the chair left vacant by the death of the Marquis de Fortia d'Urban . Collecting only one vote in the suffrage opposing him to Prosper Mérimée , who obtained twenty-five votes, and Henri Ternaux-Compans who succeeded in convincing eleven academicians out of the thirty-eight voters, he bowed to Mérimée, elected free member 30 .

In session ofJuly 18, 1846of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, he was elected, on the first ballot, a free member of the Institute, in place of Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès , deceased, having received thirty-eight votes out of the 39 cast , a voice going to Henri Ternaux-Compans 31 , 7 .

He was received as a resident member of the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Bordeaux , theAugust 29, 1856.

By decree ofFebruary 22, 1858, vice-president of the committee of historical works and learned societies near the ministry of public instruction, worship and fine arts, he was appointed president of the section of archeology of the said committee .

By decree datedJanuary 8, 1859, he was appointed a member of the Council of the seal of titles 34 , the vice-presidency of which was entrusted to him, in 1861 35 .

In 1874, he was received into the Society for the History of Paris and Île-de-France 28 .

He published a large number of literary articles in periodical collections such as Le Conservateur , La Revue des deux Mondes , L'Europe littéraire , La Revue de Paris , La Revue germanique , La Revue française et etrangere 4 .

Following his death, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres proceeded, onMarch 10, 1876, to elections aimed at his replacement. In the first ballot, Alexandre Germain obtained 15 votes, Charles Nisard , 15 votes also, and Frédéric Baudry , twelve votes. A second round of balloting credits with 25 votes Alexandre Germain who is elected free member of the academy 36 .

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