Antonin Proust

See also: Proust (homonymy)

Antonin Proust (March 15th 1832 with Niort - March 20th 1905 with Paris) is a journalist and Politician French.

Antonin Proust is directed in the beginning towards the Peinture under the influence of his/her comrade of childhood Edouard Manet, then turns to journalism and the Politique. Republican elected official Appointed of the department of the Two-Sevres at the beginning of the Third Republic, it founds the newspaper the universal week in 1864 and becomes the personal secretary of Gambetta.

Its Gambetta guard, once with the capacity, names it in 1881 at the new post of “Minister for the Art schools”. Antonin Proust benefits from this occasion to found the school of Louvre.

The end of its life is primarily devoted to pay homage to his/her friend disappeared Manet: Antonin Proust organizes as of 1884 a vast exposure recalling the career of the painter, then publishes a collection of memories relating in particular to their years common last to the Collège Rollin. Reached of a terminal illness, it Suicide in 1905.

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