Alexandre Glais-Bizoin

Alexandre Olivier Glais de Bizoin , also known as Glais-Bizoin , is a French politician born with Quintin (Coast-of-North) the March 9th 1800 and died in Lamballe (Coast-of-North) the November 6th 1877.

Biography

Resulting from a rich person family of the Coast-of-North, grandson of a trader in fabrics of Saint-Thélo, wire of Olivier Glais de Bizoin (1742 - 1801), negotiating in fabrics with Bizoin and appointed in 1791, Alexandre Glais de Bizoin made studies of right but, once received lawyer (1822), neglected the bar for the policy. Man of the left, it fought with the liberals against the Bourbons of the elder branch.

After the Revolution of 1830, it was named member of the general advice of Coast-of-North and was made elect appointed the July 5th 1831 in the 6th college of this department (Loudéac). It took seat with the extreme-left and was constantly re-elected throughout all reign of Louis-Philippe: the June 21st 1834, the November 4th 1837, the March 2nd 1839, the July 9th 1842 and the 1846.

“Given Adversary of the government policy, it was less announced by its speeches that by its interruptions”, according to the Dictionnaire of the French members of Parliament , signed the report 1832, the capacity badgered with its interpellations and of its criticisms and especially got busy to claim the reduction in the tax of salt and the tax on the letters, and the removal of the stamp of the newspapers. He decided against the laws of September 1835 and showed himself, contrary by the very large majority of the members of Parliament, hostile with the translation of ashes of: “The ideas Bonapartists, says it, are one of the wounds sharp of our time; they represent what there is of more disastrous for the emancipation of the people, of more contrary with the human independence of mind. ”

He voted against the allowance Pritchard, for the reform proposals electoral, and took an active share with the Campagne of the banquets. After being itself associated at the request of committal for trial with the ministry Guizot, it adopted the Second Republic and was elected with the constituent Assembly by the department of Coast-of-North the April 23rd 1848, then appointed the Seine in 1869. It took part in the government of national defense of Gambetta in 1870.

In 1868, it was one of the founders of the newspaper the Platform and in 1870 it engaged Emile Zola as secretary.

Within the framework of the postal system, it is known to have proposed the adoption of a single tariff of sending of a letter, independent of the distance. The Parliament finally adopts the idea in 1847, ten years after the proposal of Glais-Bizoin.

He dies in Saint-Brieuc in 1877 where he was city council man since 1870.

References

Sources

Rene Huguen, Glais-Bizoin and the Large file of the railroad, published on account of author

External bond

A. Glais de Bizoin by the philatelic club briochin

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