Guillaume Margue

Guillaume-Leon Margue is a French politician born with Salornay-on-Guye (Saône-et-Loire) on July 14th 1828, died with Salornay on September 13rd 1888. He was appointed of 1876 to 1885.

Biography

Fls of a former notary become Justice of the Peace, it studied the right and was registered with the bar of Mâcon. Republican, it made opposition to the Empire, pled with a certain talent several political lawsuits in the department of the Rhone, and was interned in Paris after the coup d'etat of 1851.

Secretary of Alexandre Dumas of 1858 to 1860, it collaborated in the newspaper the republican Alliance of Saône-et-Loire, and presented himself, like independent candidate with the legislative Body, on May 24th, 1869, in the 5th district of Saône-et-Loire, which gave him only 1,897 votes, against 12,893 to the elected official candidate, Mr. Lacroix, 3,199 with Mr. Ballard, 2,402 with Mr. Boysset and 1,434 with Mr. André. February 8th, 1871, it still obtained, like candidate with the National Assembly, 47,594 votes, without being elected.

General adviser of the canton of Cluny (1873-1880), it again tried electoral fortune with the legislative elections of February 20th, 1876, and was elected appointed 1st district of Mâcon, by 10,803 votes (13,625 voters, 17,630 registered voters). He sat â left, among the radicals, voted for the proposal for a plenary amnesty of François-Vincent Raspail and, after she had been pushed back, emitted another, different in the terms, and about equivalent to the bottom: it had the same fate. Adversary of the government of Sixteen-May. Mr. Margue was of the 363. Re-elected like such, on October 14th, 1877, by 11,127 votes (14,169 voters, 17,689 registered voters), it approached the moderated majority, and supported the republican ministries of the legislature. Mr. Margue voted for article 7, the amnesty, the invalidation of the election of Auguste Blanqui, for the new laws on the press and the right of meeting, etc It took part in a great number of parliamentary discussions, but a certain reputation came to him especially from a noisy incident of meeting. It distinctly was heard a day, in the middle of a tumult raised by several deputies of the right-hand side, to aloud represent his impression by a word, only one, that which had already illustrated the Cambronne general. This word did not harm its political fortune. Re-elected appointed, on August 21st, 1881, by 9,740 votes (10,697 voters, 17,780 registered voters), Mr. Margue was named, at the time of the constitution of the cabinet Gambetta (November 14th, 1831), under-secretary of State to the ministry for the Interior. He joined the acts of the chief of opportunism, left the businesses with him on January 29th, 1882, decided against the Freycinet ministry, returned to the capacity as under-secretary of State inside under the ministry Ferry (of February 27th, 1883 in the month of May 1884), spoke still sometimes, voted sometimes with the republican Union, sometimes with the radical left, and, carried, on October 4th, 1885, on the opportunist list of Saône-et-Loire, failed with 31,527 votes (135,611 voters, 174, 124 registered voters). He desisted with the second turn, and was named to advise at the court of Paris.

The shortly after its death a newspaper wrote “Mr. Margue was not a terrible adversary, although its acute profile gave him a false air of Robespierre. However, lawyer of soil, impregnated of the juice of Thorins, with the accent coloured like the wine of Fleury, it had temperament and ardor; its Burgundian liveliness, which was certainly not first vintage, had tone nevertheless, and an accentuated reflection rubicond. Let us add that as speaker it was not without talent, although its famous load of Waterloo could make believe that it knew only one word in all the French language.” Mr. Margue was the brother-in-law of the critic estimated Mr. Henri of Pommeraye.

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