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19-536: Freycinet may refer to: People Charles de Freycinet (1828–1923), French prime minister Louis de Freycinet (1779–1842), French Navy officer Rose de Freycinet (1794-1832), diarist and wife of Louis. Places Cape Freycinet , Western Australia Henri Freycinet Harbour , Western Australia Freycinet Island , Western Australia Freycinet National Park , Tasmania Freycinet Peninsula , Tasmania Other Freycinet gauge , standard governing

38-457: A great scheme for the gradual acquisition of the railways by the state and the construction of new lines at a cost of three milliards of francs, and for the development of the canal system at a further cost of one milliard. He retained his post in the ministry of William Henry Waddington , whom he succeeded in December 1879 as Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs. He passed an amnesty for

57-475: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles de Freycinet Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet ( French: [ʃaʁl də fʁɛjsinɛ] ; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman who served four times as Prime Minister during the Third Republic . He also served an important term as Minister of War (1888–1893). He belonged to

76-698: The Isthmus of Suez , but the vote of credit was rejected in the Chamber by 417 votes to 75, and the ministry resigned. He returned to office in April 1885 as Foreign Minister in Henri Brisson 's cabinet, and retained that post when, in January 1886, he succeeded to the premiership. He came to power with an ambitious programme of internal reform; but apart from settling the question of the exiled pretenders, his successes were chiefly in

95-664: The Legion of Honour ; took part in the Roman campaigns of 1848 and 1849, and was made colonel. He served as general of brigade throughout the Crimean War of 1854-56, being promoted general of division and commander of the Legion of Honour. During the campaign in Lombardy in 1859 he commanded at Marseilles , and superintended the despatch of men and stores to the seat of war, and for his services he

114-570: The Moderate Republican faction. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences , and in 1890, the fourteenth member to occupy a seat in the Académie Française . Freycinet was born at Foix ( Ariège ) of a Protestant family and was the nephew of Louis de Freycinet , a French navigator and the grandson of Élisabeth-Antoinette-Catherine Armand , a French pastellist. Charles Freycinet

133-625: The Sologne and was superseded. After the government surrendered to Prussia in January 1871, General Paladines was appointed as head of the National Guard , whose members deeply resented having him as their commander. After the armistice he was elected to the National Assembly by the departments both of Allier and Gironde . He sat for Allier as a member of the Centre gauche parliamentary group and

152-771: The Communards, but in attempting to steer a middle course (between the Catholics and the anti-clericalists) on the question of religious associations, he lost Gambetta's support, and resigned in September 1880. In January 1882 he again became Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. The reluctance of the French parliament to join Britain in the bombardment of Alexandria was the death-knell of French influence in Egypt . He attempted to compromise by occupying

171-681: The Ministry of War. In November 1898 he once again became Minister of War in the Charles Dupuy cabinet, but resigned office on 6 May 1899. Louis d%27Aurelle de Paladines He was born at Le Malzieu-Ville , Lozère, educated at the Prytanée National Militaire and St Cyr , and entered the army as sub-lieutenant of foot in 1824. He served with distinction in Algeria between 1841 and 1848, becoming lieutenant-colonel and an officer of

190-745: The United Kingdom, on which he wrote Mémoire sur le travail des femmes et des enfants dans les manufactures de l'Angleterre (1867). In July 1870 the Franco-Prussian War started, which led to the fall of the Second French Empire of Napoleon III . On the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870, he offered his services to Léon Gambetta , was appointed prefect of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne , and in October became chief of

209-482: The dimensions of the locks of some canals. Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Freycinet . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freycinet&oldid=996656011 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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228-438: The first civilian since 1848 to hold that office. His services to France in this capacity were the crowning achievement of his life, and he enjoyed the conspicuous honour of holding his office without a break for five years through as many successive administrations – those of Floquet and Pierre Tirard , his own fourth ministry (March 1890 – February 1892), and the Émile Loubet and Alexandre Ribot ministries. The introduction of

247-464: The military cabinet. It was mainly Freycinet's powers of organization which enabled Gambetta to raise army after army to oppose the invading Germans. He revealed himself to be a competent strategist, but the policy of dictating operations to the generals in the field was not accompanied by happy results. The friction between him and General d'Aurelle de Paladines resulted in the loss of the advantage temporarily gained at Coulmiers and Orléans , and he

266-686: The sphere of colonial extension. In spite of his unrivalled skill as a parliamentary tactician, he failed to keep his party together, and was defeated on 3 December 1886. In the following year, after two unsuccessful attempts to construct new ministries, he stood for the Presidency of the Republic; but the radicals, to whom his opportunism was distasteful, turned the scale against him by transferring their votes to Marie François Sadi Carnot . In April 1888 he became Minister of War in Charles Floquet 's cabinet –

285-469: The three-years' service and the establishment of a general staff, a supreme council of war, and the army commands were all due to him. His premiership was marked by heated debates on the clerical question, and it was a hostile vote on his bill against the religious associations that caused the fall of his cabinet. He failed to clear himself entirely of complicity in the Panama scandals , and in January 1893 resigned

304-456: Was at first very successful against von der Tann-Rathsamhausen , winning the battle of Coulmiers and compelling the Germans to evacuate Orléans, but the capitulation of Metz had set free additional German troops to oppose him, and, after his defeat at Beaune la Rolande and subsequent unsuccessful fighting near Orléans, resulting in its recapture by the Germans in December, Aurelle retreated into

323-481: Was educated at the École Polytechnique . He entered government service as a mining engineer (see X-Mines ). In 1858 he was appointed traffic manager to the Compagnie de chemins de fer du Midi , a post in which he showed a remarkable talent for organization, and in 1862 returned to the engineering service, attaining in 1886 the rank of inspector-general. He was sent on several special scientific missions, including one to

342-723: Was made a grand officer of the Legion of Honour. Placed on the reserve list in 1869, he was recalled to the Marseilles command on the outbreak of the Franco-German War of 1870-71. After the first capture of Orléans by the Germans, he was appointed by the Government of National Defense , in November 1870, to the command of the Army of the Loire (notwithstanding his monarchist and catholic beliefs). He

361-527: Was responsible for the campaign in the east, which ended in the destruction of the Armée de l'Est of Charles Denis Bourbaki . In 1871 he published a defence of his administration under the title of La Guerre en province pendant le siège de Paris . He entered the Senate in 1876 as a follower of Gambetta, and in December 1877 became Minister of Public Works in the cabinet of Jules Armand Stanislaus Dufaure . He passed

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