 |
François-Jules-Paul Grévy
b. 15 Aug 1807, Mont-sous-Vaudrey, Jura [1]
d. 9 Sep 1891, Mont-sous-Vaudrey, Jura |
| Title: |
Président de l'Assemblée nationale (President of the National Assembly) |
| Term: |
16 Feb 1871 - 2 Apr 1873 |
| Chronology: |
16 Feb 1871, elected,
session of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), Grand Théâtre, Bordeaux [2] |
|
17 Feb 1871, assumed the chair,
session of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), Grand Théâtre, Bordeaux [3] |
|
2 Apr 1873, letter of resignation (dated 2 Apr 1873, Versailles) submitted to the National Assembly, acknowledged; following the reading of resignation reelected President,
elected, session of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), opéra du Palais de Versailles, Versailles [4][5] |
|
2 Apr 1873, elected,
elected, session of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), opéra du Palais de Versailles, Versailles [4][5] |
|
3 Apr 1873, declined re-election, notice (dated 3 Apr 1873, Versailles) submitted to the National Assembly,
elected, session of the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly), opéra du Palais de Versailles, Versailles [6] |
| Other offices: |
Président de la République française (President of the French Republic) (30 Jan 1879 - 2 Dec 1887) [see details] |
| Biography: |
| Attended schools at Poligny and Besançon; studied law at the Collège de l'Arc at Dole, Jura; was admitted to the bar in Paris (1837); participated in political trials during the July Monarchy; after the revolution of 1848, he was appointed commissioner of the Republic for the département of Jura (15 Mar 1848 - 29 Apr 1848); elected to the Assemblée nationale constituante (Constituent National Assembly), representing Jura (1848-1849); served as vice-president of the National Assembly (5 Mar 1849 - 26 May 1849); elected to the Assemblée nationale législative (Legislative National Assembly) (1849-1851); abstained from politics from 1851 until 1868 as one of the opposition figures; returned to practicing law during the Second Empire; elected to fill a vacancy in the Corps législatif (1868-1870); after the fall of Napoléon III elected to the Assemblee nationale (National Assembly) from Jura (1871-1876); president of the National Assembly (16 Feb 1871 - 2 Apr 1873); resigned under the pressure of the monarchists (2 Apr 1873); elected president again (2 Apr 1876), but refused to serve (3 Apr 1873); elected to the Chambre des députés [Chamber of Deputies] (1876-1879); provisional president (8 Mar 1876 - 13 Mar 1876), president (13 Mar 1876 - 30 Jan 1879) of the Chamber of Deputies; following the resignation of Marshal de Mac Mahon, he was elected President of the Republic (30 Jan 1879); favored strong legislature at the expense of weak executive; opposed colonial expansion, but France turned Annam and Tonkin in its protectorate (1883) and sent an expedition to Madagascar (1883-1885); won reelection with overwhelming majority of votes (28 Dec 1885); was forced to resign (2 Dec 1887) because of a scandal over the sale of decorations for the Légion d'Honneur by his son-in-law. |
| Biographical sources: Bonnières, Robert de. Mémoires d'aujourd'hui. Paris: Ollendorff, 1883. online; Jeambrun, Pierre. Jules Grévy, ou, La République debout. Paris: Tallandier, 1991. online |
| Elections: |
| Candidate |
Vote (16 Jan 1871) |
| votes cast |
536 |
| blank/invalid |
5 |
| valid votes/absolute majority |
531/266 |
| François-Jules-Paul Grévy |
519 |
| Denis-Aimé-René-Emmanuel comte Benoist d'Azy |
3 |
| Napoléon comte Daru |
1 |
| Léon-Michel Gambetta |
1 |
| Edgar Quinet |
1 |
|
| Source of electoral results: Annales de l'Assemblée nationale, 1:56.
|
| |
| [1] |
Original birth record is preserved in the Archives of the département of Jura, 3E/5519, image 79/276: "Du seizième jour du mois d'août, à deux heures du soir, l'an mil huit cent sept; Acte de naissance de François Jules Pole Grévy, né à Mont-sous-Vaudrey, le quinze de courant, à onze heures du soir, fils de Mr François Hyacinthe Grévy..." Published in: Jeambrun, op. cit., 15-16; Bonnières, op. cit., 79-80. |
| [2] |
Annales de l'Assemblée nationale, 1:56. |
| [3] |
Annales de l'Assemblée nationale, 1:59. |
| [4] |
Annales de l'Assemblée nationale, 17:225-229. |
| [5] |
Journal des débats, politiques et littéraires. Édition de Paris. Jeudi 3 Avril 1873. |
| [6] |
Annales de l'Assemblée nationale, 17:254. |
| |
Image: photograph by Nadar (c. 1880) |
