Vintage “French Statesman" Jules Favre Hand Written Note For Sale
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Vintage “French Statesman" Jules Favre Hand Written Note:
$139.99
Up for sale a RARE! "French Statesman" Jules Favre Hand Written Note.
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Jules
Claude Gabriel Favre (21
March 1809 – 20 January 1880) was a French statesman. After the establishment
of the Third Republic in
September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans in
the National Assembly. He was born in Lyon,
and began his career as a lawyer. From the time of the Revolution of 1830, he openly declared himself a republican, and in political trials he took the opportunity to
express this opinion. After the Revolution of 1848 he
was elected deputy for Lyon to the Constituent Assembly, where he sat among
the Moderate Republicans,
voting against the socialists. When Louis Napoleon was elected President of France, Favre
openly opposed him, and on 2 December 1851 he tried with Victor Hugo and others to organize armed resistance in
the streets of Paris. After the coup d'état, he withdrew from politics, returned to the
legal profession, and distinguished himself by his defence of Felice Orsini, the perpetrator of the attack against the life
of Napoleon III. In 1858 he
was elected deputy for Paris, and was one of the "Five" who gave the
signal for the republican opposition to the Empire. In 1863 he became the head
of his party, and delivered a number of addresses denouncing the Mexican
expedition and the occupation of Rome. These addresses, eloquent, clear and
incisive, won him a seat in the Académie française in
1867. With Adolphe Thiers he
opposed the war against Prussia in
1870, and at the news of the defeat of Napoleon III at Sedan he demanded the deposition of the emperor. Favre
opposed the removal of the government from Paris during the siege. In the government of National
Defence he became vice-president under General Trochu, and
minister of foreign affairs, with the onerous task of negotiating peace with
victorious Germany. He proved to be less adroit as a diplomat than he had been
as an orator, and committed several irreparable blunders. His famous statement
on 6 September 1870, that he "would not yield to Germany an inch of
territory nor a single stone of the fortresses" was a piece of oratory
which Bismarck met on the
19th by his declaration to Favre that Alsace and Lorraine had to be
ceded as a condition of peace. He arranged for the armistice of 28 January 1871 without
knowing the situation of the armies, and without consulting the government
at Bordeaux. By a grave oversight, he neglected to inform Léon Gambetta that the Army of the East (80,000
men) was not included in the armistice, and it was thus obliged to retreat to
neutral territory. He showed no diplomatic skill in the negotiations for
the Treaty of Frankfurt, and
it was Bismarck who imposed all the conditions. He withdrew from the ministry,
discredited, on 2 August 1871, but remained in the Chamber of Deputies as a
member of républicaine. Elected Senator on 30 January 1876, he continued to support the
government of the republic against the reactionary opposition until his death
on 20 January 1880. Favre turned out to have a skeleton in his closet, although
he probably never saw it as such. He had a series of children with a married
woman who never got a divorce. Although Favre recognized these children as his
own legally, the story did not become known generally until after 1871, when
his bungling of the diplomacy with Bismarck left him a good target for
political enemies. The story was released, and Favre did win damages against
one of the men who released it, but whatever influence he might still have had
was smashed. Ironically, it is apparent that his old opponent, Napoleon III knew of the situation, but as Favre never
attacked the Emperor about his sexual affairs, the Emperor respected Favre on
the same issue.
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