RARE "French Statesman" Jules Favre Hand Written Note For Sale

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RARE "French Statesman" Jules Favre Hand Written Note:
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Jules

Claude Gabriel Favre (21

March 1809 – 20 January 1880) was a French statesman. After the establishment

of the Third Republic in

September 1870, he became one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans in

the National Assembly. He was born in Lyon,

and began his career as a lawyer. From the time of the Revolution of 1830, he openly declared himself a republican, and in political trials he took the opportunity to

express this opinion. After the Revolution of 1848 he

was elected deputy for Lyon to the Constituent Assembly, where he sat among

the Moderate Republicans,

voting against the socialists. When Louis Napoleon was elected President of France, Favre

openly opposed him, and on 2 December 1851 he tried with Victor Hugo and others to organize armed resistance in

the streets of Paris. After the coup d'état, he withdrew from politics, returned to the

legal profession, and distinguished himself by his defence of Felice Orsini, the perpetrator of the attack against the life

of Napoleon III. In 1858 he

was elected deputy for Paris, and was one of the "Five" who gave the

signal for the republican opposition to the Empire. In 1863 he became the head

of his party, and delivered a number of addresses denouncing the Mexican

expedition and the occupation of Rome. These addresses, eloquent, clear and

incisive, won him a seat in the Académie française in

1867. With Adolphe Thiers he

opposed the war against Prussia in

1870, and at the news of the defeat of Napoleon III at Sedan he demanded the deposition of the emperor. Favre

opposed the removal of the government from Paris during the siege. In the government of National

Defence he became vice-president under General Trochu, and

minister of foreign affairs, with the onerous task of negotiating peace with

victorious Germany. He proved to be less adroit as a diplomat than he had been

as an orator, and committed several irreparable blunders. His famous statement

on 6 September 1870, that he "would not yield to Germany an inch of

territory nor a single stone of the fortresses" was a piece of oratory

which Bismarck met on the

19th by his declaration to Favre that Alsace and Lorraine had to be

ceded as a condition of peace. He arranged for the armistice of 28 January 1871 without

knowing the situation of the armies, and without consulting the government

at Bordeaux. By a grave oversight, he neglected to inform Léon Gambetta that the Army of the East (80,000

men) was not included in the armistice, and it was thus obliged to retreat to

neutral territory. He showed no diplomatic skill in the negotiations for

the Treaty of Frankfurt, and

it was Bismarck who imposed all the conditions. He withdrew from the ministry,

discredited, on 2 August 1871, but remained in the Chamber of Deputies as a

member of républicaine. Elected Senator on 30 January 1876, he continued to support the

government of the republic against the reactionary opposition until his death

on 20 January 1880. Favre turned out to have a skeleton in his closet, although

he probably never saw it as such. He had a series of children with a married

woman who never got a divorce. Although Favre recognized these children as his

own legally, the story did not become known generally until after 1871, when

his bungling of the diplomacy with Bismarck left him a good target for

political enemies. The story was released, and Favre did win damages against

one of the men who released it, but whatever influence he might still have had

was smashed. Ironically, it is apparent that his old opponent, Napoleon III knew of the situation, but as Favre never

attacked the Emperor about his sexual affairs, the Emperor respected Favre on

the same issue. 

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