Adrien de Gasparin
Adrien Étienne Pierre, comte de Gasparin (born in Orange, Vaucluse, June 29, 1783; died there, September 7, 1862) was a French statesman and agriculturist.
Biography
He entered the army, but was soon compelled by illness to give up military life. After the revolution of 1830 he was made successively prefect of the departments of Loire and Isère, and in 1831 of Rhône. For his promptness in suppressing an insurrection at Lyons in 1834, he was raised to the peerage. He became minister of the interior in 1836, and gave his attention especially to prison reforms and the establishment of hospitals. He occupied the same position in the short-lived cabinet of March 1839. In 1848 he accepted the management of the national agricultural institute at Versailles. The institute was abolished in 1852.
Literary works
He published a large number of papers and several extended works on agricultural subjects, the principal of which is Cours d'agriculture (5 vols., Paris, 1843–49).
Family
His son Agénor de Gasparin was a noted politician and author, who emigrated to Geneva.
| Preceded by Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet |
French Minister of the Interior 1836–1837 |
Succeeded by Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet |
| Preceded by Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet |
French Minister of the Interior 1839–1839 |
Succeeded by Charles Marie Tanneguy Duchâtel |
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References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Gasparin, Adrien Étienne Pierre, count de". The American Cyclopædia.
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