François Césaire de Mahy

François Césaire de Mahy is a Politician French born with Saint-Pierre of the Réunion the July 22nd 1830 and died with Paris the November 19th 1906.

It is born with Saint-Pierre in a family from notable from a father who will be elected mayor of this city in 1841. The François young person goes initially to the college to Saint-Denis before continuing his studies with the Lycée Henri-Iv with Paris. He will return in his birthplace only in 1857, that is to say two years after having obtained his Doctorat of Médecine. The contact of its many patients gives birth to in him a vocation for the Politique which leads it to project to set out again for the capital.

A tropical Cyclone the conduit to cancel its project and to engage locally. It makes its first weapons in the Journalisme, precisely with the Courrier of Saint-Pierre . It develops soon with Alexandre of the Serf a reform project colonial which would lead to the legislative assimilation of the island to the metropolis. When the Third Republic is proclaimed and that two seats of Député S are granted to the Meeting, it is presented finally in the form of a republican candidate, like his friend. They are largely elected the November 20th 1870. It will sit at the National Assembly until her death which has occurred during a mandate. It will show during all this time a Anticléricalisme pronounced, even if it votes against the separation of the Church and the State in 1905.

It is from its station of deputy that it will be interested in any case in all the aspects of the colonial policy of the France while continuing to exert as doctor and journalist and while engaging in the Franc-maçonnerie. Also, if Jules Grévy makes of him its Minister for Agriculture in 1882, he becomes then Minister for the Navy and the Colonies in 1883. He still occupies this station under the first government of Pierre Tirard in 1887. During these a few years, it actively supports the project of colonization of Madagascar by its country. When the Large island is finally taken, it takes part in the policy of “pacification” of this one carried out by Gallieni in incentive Réunionnais to settle over there.

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List of the deputies of the Meeting.

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Article of the '' Journal of the Island of the Meeting '' on François Césaire de Mahy.

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