Frederic Passy

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Frederic Passy , born the May 20th 1822 with Paris and dead the June 12th 1912 with Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French politician who devoted his life to the pacifist ideal .

Resulting from a family which was illustrated in the policy and sciences - his/her uncle Hippolyte Passy was minister of Louis-Philippe and Louis Napoleon Bonaparte - Frederic Passy undertakes studies of lawyer. He becomes a time listener with the Council of State before starting a career of journalist. It Marie with Marie-White Sageret although he is, according to the Frères Goncourt, “monstrueusement and dégoûtamment ugly of the men”.

At the conclusion of a campaign which it carries out in the newspaper Time against a war between France and the Prussia, it founds the International Ligue of Peace the May 21st 1867, then the Société of arbitration between the Nations, ancestor of UNO, in 1870. It founds then the International union for peace in 1889 and facilitates the bringing together between France and England.

In 1877, it is elected with the Academy of Science morals and political. He is elected with the House of Commons to the elections of 1881 and 1885. Beaten to the elections of 1889, he is opposed to the policy colonialist of Jules Ferry and remains in the memories like the deputy who wanted to prohibit the war. He is the author of a law on the industrial accidents, favorable to the workmen.

In 1888, with the head of a delegation of French deputies, it meets William Randal Cremer (Nobel Prize of peace in 1903), which directs a delegation of British deputies. Following this meeting, a group of members of Parliament French, British, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Hungarian, Belgian and American found the interparliamentary Union. Frederic Passy is one of the first presidents.

He is impassioned by pedagogy and never gives up its vocation, teaching until the 81 years age and writing many works. Feminist before the hour, it is favorable to the abolition of the Capital punishment. As regards economy, he is a partisan of the Libre-échange and saving.

The December 10th 1901, it receives jointly with Switzerland Henri Dunant, founder of the Croix-Rouge, the first Nobel Prize of peace.

Some quotations of Frederic Passy

It is necessary to inform the men, and the women also, since one finally warned oneself a little late, that the women could have an intelligence well to cultivate the men as well as. (1900)
let us not tear our flags, unisons them or rather by preserving them and by honouring them, because they are indeed crowned emblems, emblems of our sufferings, our joys, our misfortunes, our glories; let us form their reconciled colors a common beam of hope, mutual confidence and shared size. (1901)
It has there no more deaf persons whose ears, voluntarily or not, enough are closed not to hear the cry of humanity against the war. (1904)
the ogre of the war devoured too a long time purest of the substance of humanity. (1904)

Works

economic Mixture , Guillaumin, Paris, 1857.
Of the intellectual property (with V.Modeste and P.Paillote), Guillaumin, Paris, 1859.
Lessons of political economy (collected by E.Bertin and P.Glaize), Fat, Montpellier, 1861.
the Democracy and the instruction , Guillaumin, Paris, 1864.
Machines and their influence on the development of humanity , Hatchet, Paris, 1866.
Malthus and its doctrines , 1868.
History of work: lessons made with the literary evenings of the Sorbonne , Paris, 1873.
For peace , Carpenter, Paris, 1909.
Sophisms and truisms , Giard and Brière, Paris, 1910.

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