Jacques Honoré Lelarge de Lourdoueix
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Jacques Honoré Lelarge, Baron de Lourdoueix (1787 – 2 October 1860) was a French novelist, journalist and polemist.
Biography
He was born in the castle of Beaufort in Malleret-Boussac (Creuse). Coming from the legitimist movement, he was among the heresiarchs or voltairians of the right, who tried to reconcile the defense of the throne and the altar with the philosophical and liberal achievements. This desire for a synthesis with modernity made him one of the pillars of national Law royalism and the main collaborator of Abbot de Genoude until the latter's death in 1849. He then succeeded him as director of the Gazette de France.
He defended a new Restoration through the Appel au Peuple, that is, a plebiscite asking the French people to choose between the legitimate monarchy or the Republic, and advocated a series of social measures, such as the establishment of pension funds for workers. This program, which in some respects was similar to that of the socialist democrats, led this royalist tendency to be referred to as the "White Mountain" in Southern France, where it was most strongly represented.
The original positions of Lourdoueix and the Gazette de France were finally condemned by the Count of Chambord in the text known as the Barthélémy Manifesto or the Wiesbaden Circular, on August 30, 1850, which condemned the doctrine of the Appeal to the People as "implying the negation of the great principle of monarchic heredity." The royalism of National Law withers following this position of the legitimist pretender, even though Lourdoueix continued to show originality in the royalist movement and to animate the Gazette de France until his death.
Head of the department of belles-lettres at the Ministry of the Interior in 1821, then royal censor in 1827, he was also a contributor to the Spectateur and the Mercure de France, and director of the Défenseur du peuple, a political, agricultural and industrial newspaper from 1850 to 1852.
He was the adoptive father of Paul de Lourdoueix (1818–1868), also a journalist, who succeeded him as director of the Gazette de France from 1854 to 1861.[1]
Works
- Les Folies du siècle (1817; novel)
- Les Séductions politiques, ou l'An 1821 (1822; novel)
- Appel à la France contre la division des opinions (1831)
- De la Restauration de la société francaise (1833)
- La Raison monarchique (1838; with Antoine Eugène Genoud)
- De la Vérité universelle, pour servir d'introduction à la philosophie du Verbe (1838)
- Élévations et prières (1847)
- Le Droit national (1851)
- La Révolution c'est l'orléanisme (1852)
- Le Dernier Mot de la Révolution. M. Proudhon réfuté. Exposé critique du fouriérisme (1852)
Notes
- ↑ Bonet, Gérard (2011). "Lourdoueix (Antoine, Paul Pannier Lelarge de)." In: Nouveau Dictionnaire de Biographies Roussillonnaises 1789-2011, Vol. 1. Perpignan: Publications de l'Olivier.
References
- Lourdoueix, Paul de (1850). Quelques Explications Soumises aux Hommes du Droit National sur les Affaires Royalistes. Perpignan: Jean-Baptiste Alzine.
