Edouard Lockroy

Edouard Lockroy (born the July 18th 1838 - died the November 22nd 1913) is a Politician French of the Third Republic. Remained faithful to the Extreme-left during the Years 1870, Lockroy then approached to the opportunist republicanism and especially the Parti radical socialist, of which it became one of the figureheads. A long time with the head of the ministry for the navy, it engaged a voluntarist and expansionist naval policy. Its passage to the ministry for the trade and industry in addition enabled him to actively support the highly disputed construction of the Eiffel Tower.

Lockroy married in 1877 the widow of Charles Hugo, the son of the writer Victor Hugo.

Youth

Born with Paris, Edouard is the son of Joseph Philippe Simon (1803 - 1891), a Acteur of Théâtre which took the name of Lockroy.

After having started artistic studies , Edouard Lockroy engaged in 1860 under the orders of Giuseppe Garibaldi and took part in the unification of the Italy. It spent the three following years in Syria as a secretary of Ernest Renan. On its return to Paris, Lockroy became an adverse credit with the Second Empire and was made Journaliste in the columns of the Figaro , of the Diable to four then Rappel , with which its name was then closely dependant. Lockroy accepted the command of a Bataillon during the head office of Paris, during the Franco-German Guerre of 1870. In February 1871, it was elected appointed with the National Assembly on the benches of the Extreme-left. It was distinguished there in particular while protesting against the peace negotiations.

Parliamentary career

In March, Edouard Lockroy belonged to the signatories of the proclamation organization the election of the Commune of Paris, and resigned of his mandate of deputy. Stopped during confrontations with Vanves, he was imprisoned with Versailles then with Chartres until June, when he was released without lawsuit. The man would be then imprisoned once again for the drafting of violent one articles in the press, then again in 1872 after a duel with Paul de Cassagnac.

Lockroy carried out its return to the House of Commons in 1873 as a deputy radical socialist of the Rhone delta, then of Aix-en-Provence in 1877 and 1881, date on which he was also elected in the 11th district of Paris. Constrained to choose, it then carried its preference on its Parisian mandate, and was re-elected thereafter very often. During elections of 1893, Lockroy was the target of an attack carried out by a coachman and a Poète of the name of Moore, which drew several balls in its direction without wounding it seriously. During the first ten years of his parliamentary career, the deputy voted with constancy for the extreme-left, but adopted then an opportunist attitude more : he granted for example his entirety support for the ministry of Henri Brisson in 1885. In 1905 he votes the Law of separation of the churches and the state.

Ministerial functions

To the new ministerial cabinet of Charles de Freycinet, formed in January 1885, Lockroy the important wallet of the Commerce and the Industrie obtained, which it preserved under the government of Rene Goblet of 1886 - 1887. In 1885, the popularity of Lockroy had placed it at the head elections at Paris, and its participation in the Freycinet government was perceived like the prospect for a reconciliation between Parisian radicalism and the official Républicanisme. Its passage to the ministry for the trade and industry in particular enabled him to organize the first preparations for the World Fair of 1889: in a letter full with corrosive, Lockroy supports the construction of the Eiffel Tower, against the refractory opinion of artistic Paris.

After the Scandal of Panama and the crisis boulangist, Lockroy was affirmed like one of the principal figures of the Radical party. He became vice-president of the House of Commons in 1894 and 1895, before being named Minister for the marine under the government of Leon Bourgeois. The drastic reforms that it engaged in its field of competence alarmed the most moderate politicians, but it could gain the confidence of the opinion and could thus preserve its wallet under Henri Brisson (1898) and Charles Dupuy (1898 - 1899).

Lockroy granted its support for the government of Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, but actively criticized the naval policy followed by Camille Pelletan under the government of Emile Combes of 1902 to 1905, period during which it reached again the vice-presidency of the House of Commons.

Works

Edouard Lockroy was the faithful lawyer of the French naval policy, which it wished to see to affirm itself with more voluntarism. He is in particular the author of:

Navy (1890)
Six months Royal street (1897)
naval defense (1900)
Of Weser in the Vistula (1901)
the Marines Frenchwoman and German (1904)
the naval Program (1906)

Among his other works, one counts Mr. de Moltke and the future war (1891) as well as the Journal of a middle-class woman during the Revolution (1881), inspired of written letters by his great-grandmother.

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