Paul Adolphe Marie Prosper Granier de Cassagnac
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– 1904) was the son of Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac
Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac
Bernard Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac was a French journalist and politician.-Biography:Born in Avéron-Bergelle, département of Gers, he began his career as a Parisian journalist in 1832, contributing defences of Romanticism and Conservatism to the Revue de Paris, the Journal des Débats, and to La...
, and while still young associated with his father in both politics and journalism. In 1866 he became editor of the Conservative paper Le Pays
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, and figured in a long series of political duels. On the declaration of war in 1870 he volunteered for service and was taken prisoner at Sedan
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he continued to defend the Bonapartist
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cause in Le Pays, against both Republicans and Royalists. Elected deputy for the department of Gers
Gers
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in 1876, he adopted in the chamber a policy of obstruction to discredit the republican régime. In 1877 he openly encouraged MacMahon
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to attempt a Bonapartist
Bonapartist
In French political history, Bonapartism has two meanings. In a strict sense, this term refers to people who aimed to restore the French Empire under the House of Bonaparte, the Corsican family of Napoleon Bonaparte and his nephew Louis...
coup d'état, but the marshals refusal and the death of the prince imperial
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foiled his hopes. He now played but a secondary rôle in the chamber, and occupied himself mostly with the direction of the journal L'Autorité, which he had founded. He was not re-elected in 1902, and died in November 1904. His sons took over L'Autorité and the belligerent traditions of the family.