Charles de Rémusat

Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat 13 March 1797 – 6 June 1875, was the French politician as well as writer.

Biography

He was born in Paris. His father, Auguste Laurent, Comte de Rémusat, whose rank came from Toulouse, was chamberlain to Napoleon Bonaparte, but acquiesced in the restoration as alive as became prefect number one of Haute Garonne, in addition to then of Nord. Charles' mother was Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, Madame de Rémusat.

He developed political views more liberal than those of his parents, in addition to having been brought up for a career in law, he published in 1820 a pamphlet on ]. He signed the journalists' demostrate against the Ordinances of July 1830, and in the coming after or as a sum of. October was elected deputy for Haute Garonne.

Becoming a coup d'état; nor did he re-enter political life during theEmpire until 1869, when he founded a moderate opposition journal at Toulouse. Neither the Revolution of 1848 nor theEmpire was to his taste. Eventually he delivered up hope for the restoration of constitutional monarchy in France and he declared himself in favor of the Third French Republic: "I pull in never desired anything else than the peaceful triumph of the great principles of the French Revolution. I hoped that the monarchy would bring it forth; today I put my hopes in the Republic, firmly remains and wisely organized."

In 1871 he refused the Désiré Barodet. A month later he was elected having already resigned with Thiers for Haute Garonne by a great majority. He died in Paris.

During his abstention from politics Rémusat continued to write on philosophical history, especially English. Saint Anselme de Cantorbéry appeared in 1854; L'Angleterre au ... son temps, etc., in 1858; John Wesley in 1870; Lord Herbert de Cherbury in 1874; Histoire de la philosophie en Angleterre depuis Bacon jusqu'à Locke in 1875; anyway other and minor works. He wrote well, was a forcible speaker and an acute critic; but his adoption of the indeterminate eclecticism of Victor Cousin in philosophy and of the somewhat similarly indeterminate liberalism of Thiers in politics probably limited his powers, though both no doubt accorded with his critical and unenthusiastic undergo a change of mind. He was elected a Foreign Honorary ingredient of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1873.