Andre Siegfried , born with the Harbor the April 21st 1875 and died in Paris the March 28th 1959, is a Sociologue, Historien and Géographe French, pioneer of the electoral sociology.

André Siegfried was pupil with the Lycée Condorcet. Initially tried, following the example his father Jules Siegfried who were mayor of Le Havre, deputy of the Seine-Lower and Commercial Minister, by the policy, it will give up it after three failures the legislative ones.

Whereas it law Combes prohibiting any teaching with the members of a congregation (1904) and the Law of the separation of the Church and the State (1905) is voted, it writes a vibrating test on the Canadian company in which it denounces the denominational schools as well as the ambient religious influence. Initially criticized by the theologist Dominique-Ceslas Gonthier, his work is perceived today like a faithful reflection of difficult the last monk.

Interpret during the First World War, he will be writer and economist. He is in addition Libre-penseur and Protesting.

He publishes in 1913 his famous work political Tableau of France of the west under the Third Republic , in which he seeks to show the influence of geology on the vote of French of the Vendée under the first forty years of the third Republic. According to him, the north of the Vendée is granitic, which leads to a strong rurality, a dispersion of the dwellings, and thus with a strong influence of notable and Catholicism. However the north of this area votes on the right. South of the Vendée, limestone, which has brought closer dwellings and thus a less important weight of the church votes on the left under the first years of the third Republic. Siegfried of deduced its famous law the granite votes on the right, and limestone votes on the left. Its work was often décriée like too simplistic. If it is true that Siegfried is interested especially in the weight of geology, it does not remain about it less one of the pioneers of political sociology in the world.

In 1932, it succeeds Gabriel Hanotaux with the Academy of Science morals and political.

In 1933, it obtains pulpit of the economic and political geography to the Collège de France. Starting from 1934, it will collaborate systematically in the Figaro , until his death. It becomes Grand officer of the Légion of honor.

It is one of the first to being elected with the French Academy in 1944, just after the Second world war, succeeding Gabriel Hanotaux. In addition, he becomes the first president of the national Fondation of political sciences, in 1945. One owes him of many studies on the Anglo-Saxon countries , the France and electoral sociology.

In 1954, it founds the Institute of Sciences and Human Technology (Javel quay), preparatory class at the universities.

A college of Haguenau and a college of Saint-Romain-with-Colbosc received its name.

Quotation

“When with Paris breath the wind of west, it is never without emotion that I evoke in my thought the green floods of the Manche, dishevelled clouds pressing itself on the estuary of the the Seine. ”

Works

• South Africa; notes of voyage , Paris, A. Colin, 1949
• Albert Schweitzer studies and testimonys , ED. Robert Tinder, Brussels, Editions of the Hand thrown, 1951
• Latin America , Paris, A. Colin, 1934
• Aspects of the French company , Paris, Pichon, 1954
• Aspects of the 20th century , Paris, Hatchet 1955
• Five remarks on the French language , with Mario Cotton Castlings, Paris, Foundation Singer-Polignac, 1955
• in the Indies , Paris, 1950
• Crusade. Contradictory conferences , with Alfred Wautier d' Aygalliers, Charles Riandey, Union of free-thinkers and free believers for the moral culture, Paris, Fischbacher, 1931
• Of 3rd with the 4th Republic , Paris, B. Grasset 1956
• Of 4th with the 5th Republic from day to day , Paris, B. Grasset, 1958
• Two Months in North America the day before the war (June-July 1914) , Paris, A. Colin, 1916
• Speech of reception to the French Academy. January 16th, 1947 , ED. Maurice Boy, Paris, A. Fayard, 1947
• Speeches made in the public meeting held by the French Academy for the reception of Mr. Daniel-Rops, on Thursday, March 22, 1956 , Paris, Typography of Firmin-Didot, 1956
• Edouard Roy and his armchair , with Henri Daniel-Rops, Paris, A. Fayard 1956
• Edward Gibbon Wakefield and its doctrines of systematic colonization , Paris, Armand Colin, 1904
• In South America: Articles published in the Small Harbor from July in December 1931 , Le Havre, the Small Harbor, 1932
• political, economic & social Investigation into New Zealand , Paris, Desks of the political and parliamentary Review, 1900
• the United States, Canada, Mexico: letters of voyage written in Small Le Havre , Le Havre, the Newspaper, 1936
• Fur and furriers through the ages , with Jean H. Prat, Paris, ED. tiger 1960
• France, England, the United States, Canada , Paris, economic Emile-Paul 1946
• Geography. Course of University of Paris, Institute of political studies, year 1953-1954 , Paris, university Information center, 1954
• electoral Geography of Ardeche under the 3rd Republic , Paris, Hake, 1949
• humorous Geography of Paris , Paris, the Footbridge, 1951
• poetic Geography of the five continents , Paris, the Footbridge, 1952
• political History of the 3eRépublique one. Divide into volumes first, before war (1906-1914), with Georges Bonnefous, Paris, university Presses of France, 1956,1994
• Impressions of voyage in America: 1914 , Le Havre, Randolet, 1915
• Impressions of Brazil. Articles published in the Small Harbor from September 5th to 19th 1937 , Le Havre, Impr. newspaper the Small Harbor , 1937
• Western civilization , Oxford, Clarendon Near, 1945
• the British Crisis at the 20th century , Paris, A. Colin, 1931
• the Crisis of Europe , Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1935
• the Democracy in New Zealand , Paris, A. Colin, 1904
• Human dignity , with Russel W. Davenport, Paris, New Latin editions, 1958
• the Fountain, French Machiavel , Paris, Ventadour, 1955
• the French language and conditions of the modern life , with Josef Felixberger, Munich, Hueber 1968
• Sea and empire. Series of twenty-two conferences made at the maritime and colonial Institute , Paris, J. Fox 1944
• Switzerland, democracy-witness , with Pierre Fancy, Neuchâtel, Baconnière, 1969
• Technique and culture in a modern civilization , Paris, F.N. Trade unions of engineers and the senior officers, 1953
• the Sterling area , with Jean de Sailly, Paris, A. Colin, 1957
• Alsace. Original photographs , with Michel Nicolas, Paris, del Duca 1953
• the Heart of the people , Paris, Hatchet 1950
• Iberian America , with Jacques de Lauwe, Paris, Gallimard, 1937
• England of today: its economic and political evolution , Paris, Sandstone, 1924
• modern England. The social problem, the Labor experiment , with Andre Philip, Paris, ED. G. Crès and Co, 1925
• the political Year, 1946: review chronological of the principal facts economic policies and social of France from January 1st, 1946 to January 1st, 1947 , Paris: Editions of the Great century, 1947
• the cottage Industry, its current problems , with Lucien Gelly, Paris, Institute of corporative and social studies, 1944
• Canada, two races; contemporary political problems , Paris, A. Colin, 1906
• Canada, international power , Paris, A. Colin, 1937
• the American Capital and conscience of the king. Neocapitalism in the United States, with A.A. Berle, and Helene Flamingo, Paris, A. Colin, 1957
• the Centenary of the services of the Maritime Transport, (1851-1951) , ED. Jerome and Jean Tharaud, Paris, Ettighoffer and Raynaud, 1952
• the Economic development of the Latin America , Paris, SPID, 1947
• Great change of America (1900-1950) , with Frederick Lewis Allen and Roger Blondel, Paris, Amiot-Dumont, 1953
• the moral and social Role of Israel in the contemporary democracies , Paris, Books of Jewish studies, 1932
• It, age speed , Roma, Central per lo sviluppo dei trasporti aerei, 1954
• directed Economy , with Chassain de Marcilly and Al Paris, F. Alcan, 1934
• the United States of today: with 8 charts and figures , Paris, Bookstore Armand Colin, 1931
• the United States and American civilization , Paris, university Information center, 1947
• the United States such as I saw them there are fifty years and this year, Conférence pronounced at the General meeting of the G.I.R.E.P. on April 25th, 1956 , Paris, 1957
• the religious Forces and the political life. Catholicism and Protestantism , with Andre Latreille, Paris, A. Colin, 1951
• political Philosopher's stones of Machiavel at our days, with Jean-Jacques Knight, Paris, A. Colin, 1960
• Principal Currents of the religious thought in France: conference pronounced with the Majestic Hotel, Buenos-Surfaces on September 17th, 1931 , ED. Buénos-Ayres: Committee Évangélique Pro-Church of French language, 1931
• ethnic Problems of South Africa: conference made with the platform of the Colonial University from Belgium to Antwerp on February 21st, 1949 , Antwerp, Association of the Former Students of the Colonial University of Belgium, 1949
• current Questions of foreign politics in North America , Paris, F. Alcan, 1911
• Ways of Israel. Test of interpretation of the Jewish religion , Paris, Hatchet 1958
• the Spirit of the history of England , with A.L. Rowse, Paris, R. Julliard 1951
• Occident and spiritual direction of the world. (Marked Short speech on Friday, November 18, 1932.) , Neuilly, the Cause, 1932
• the scientific Work of Andre Siegfried , Paris, Presses of the national Foundation of political sciences, 1977
• My Memories of the 3rd republic. My father and his time, Jules Siegfried, 1836-1922 , Paris, university Presses of France, 1946
• My Memories of childhood , Bourges, Tardy, 1957
• My Village under the 4th Republic , ED. Did Henri Donkey, Corrie Siohan-Psichari, Groningen, 1965
• Normandy , with Christmas Boyer, Paris, Hachette 1957
• We remain Men , with Sidney Stewart, Quebec, the Club of the bestsellers, 1950,1961
• Pourquoi the Mission? '' ED. Marc Andre Boegner, Paris, Company of the Évangéliques Missions, 1950
• Technological advance and moral progress , ED. Nicolas Berdiaeff, Neuchâtel, Baconnière, 1948
• Some Maxims , Paris, J. Haumont, 1946
• Some Rules to be observed in work , 1900-1977? 11
• What America? , Paris, Flammarion 1938
• To know to speak in public , Paris, Michel 1950
• Suez, Panama and world sea routes , Paris, A. Colin, 1940
• Tableau of the United States, Paris, A. Colin, 1954
• Tableau of the parties in France , Paris, B. political Grasset 1930
• Tableau of France of the west under the third republic. 102 charts and sketch, 1 chart except text , Paris, A. Colin, 1913; réimp. Paris, Impr. main road editions, 1995
• Towards an Economic order and social, Eugene Mathon 1860-1935: its life, its ideas, its works , with Henry-Louis Dubly, Paris, 1946
• Vocation of Pont-à-Mousson , Nancy, 1957
• Voyage to the Indies , Paris, Hake, 1951
• Seen general of the Mediterranean , Paris, Gallimard 1943