Adrien Hébrard (1833-1914)

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Adrien Hébrard is a journalist, news director and French politician born with Grisolles (Tarn-et-Garonne) in 1833 and died in Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer (Yvelines) in July 1914.

After studies of right to Toulouse and Paris, Adrien Hébrard is intended initially for the bar and briefly carries out its lawyer training course with Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne) before being established in Paris where he embraces a career of journalist.

He collaborates initially in the Courrier of Paris then, in 1861, enters to the daily newspaper the Time whose founder, Auguste Nefftzer, starts with him to entrust the heading of the reprimand of the goods, then the “Bulletin of the day”. In 1867, the general meeting of the shareholders appoints it general administrator. In 1872, it repurchases all the actions of Nefftzer.

It imposes anonymity for all the political articles and enriches considerably the headings devoted to the intellectual life, recruiting Marcellin Berthelot for sciences, Ernest Legouvé then Anatole France for the literature, Jules Soury then Albert Sorel for the history, Felix Pécaut for teaching.

In December 1871, it takes part in the formation of the new business of the Globe . In 1873, it buys the public Work record , thanks to which it carries out profitable businesses, obtaining building sites for the many companies of which he is shareholder: it invests in public works, electricity, the telephone, the metallurgy. With its death, it is with the head of a very great fortune.

Unfortunate candidate with the elections of 1871, it is elected senator of the Haute-Garonne in 1879 and sits without stopping with the Senate until January 1897, sitting at the center left. During this parliamentary long career, it intervened with the platform only once, on July 3rd, 1880, in connection with the amnesty of the communards.

From 1886 to 1897, he is president of the Property owners' syndicate of the Parisian press.

During the Business Dreyfus, it kept in Time a benevolent neutrality which was very useful for the cause of Dreyfus.

In 1892, Edouard Drumont showed it complicity in the swindles of the Scandale of Panama. Heard in 1893 by his/her colleagues of the Senate, Hébrard admitted having touched 1,5 or 1,6 franc million of Gustave Eiffel with which it had made obtain an important market with the company of Panama Canal.

Zola took as a starting point the episode in Paris , making of Adrien Hébrard the model of the character of Fonsègue.

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