Jules Lecesne

Jules Lecesne , or better Cesne , born with Alençon the September 7th 1818 and died in the Harbor the February 2nd 1878, is a Négociant and Politician French.

Biography

Resulting from an easy family of the area of Alençon, this material ease which enabled him to make its studies in England where it took taste with the trade. Launched early in the commercial pursuits to remake the fortune of its ruined family, Lecesne especially succeeded with the the United States during the American Civil War, in the trade of the cotton, which it exported towards France by the means of Le Havre. One told of him, on this subject, of forwardings of an audacity which was not always without danger but which, altogether, enabled him to carry out a brilliant fortune.

Of return in France, Cesne took its residence in the vicinity of Caen to the castle of Beauregard in the commune of Hérouville, acquired grounds in the small commune with Fumichon in the Calvados, of which he became mayor in 1865. In 1869, it founded Le Havre , a newspaper of democratic opposition of a nuance then a little more moderate than that which existed already in Le Havre to bring a more radical voice to the Le Havre-native republicans.

Cesne of which advanced claims establishment of the republic and thus separation of the capacities), the vote for all, social justice, without forgetting the Secularity - classified in the rows of the radical left was candidate the same year with the general elections in the sixth district of Seine-Lower. He triumphed with the second turn over the official candidate up to that point constantly re-elected and who expected nothing less than this failure.

Cesne took seat with the legislative Body on the benches of the left; endowed of more than balance than of eloquence, he pronounced, in connection with the discussion relating to the commercial treaties, a speech on the state of the French merchant navy which created sensation, but more still to the reading than with the hearing and which classified it, thanks to its special knowledge, with the number of the rare members truly useful to sit then on the left. Then, its activities of editor association increased his notoriety and his relations and took part in its election, in 1869, Cesne was elected appointed Le Havre with the second turn in front of the candidate Bonapartiste - and thus official - thanks to the support of the working electorate.

It belonged to the Board of inquiry on the merchant marine, whose work was unfortunately stopped by the war of 1870. It fought with the radical republican deputies - and Gambetta at their head - the plebiscite and voted against the ratification of the declaration of war in Prussia. Named by Gambetta Minister of Interior Department, Cesne used its competences of trader like chair Commission of armament, after the fall of the Empire and the proclamation of the République. The September 4th, it followed, with the Commission, the Delegation of province with Tours, then with Bordeaux and used its diary packed of many Anglo-Saxon relations to negotiate various purchases of weapons and ammunition on behalf of the government, which were to provide to the adversaries of the republican mode and her partisans, the matter of some calumnies against the Commission and her president, that the Parliamentary commission of investigation into the markets put without sorrow at nothing.

Cesne achieves its mission perfectly, drawing aside the least honest suppliers and finding supplies at bearable cost by the State, which allowed the French troops, reorganized with haste, to oppose a resistance which surprised the Prussian army and prolonged the war of almost five months. However, making following the bad bases of the conflict, these efforts did not prevent the French defeat.

After the conflict, at the time of the elections of the February 8th, Cesne, sufficiently occupied, any candidature declined. In spite of certain electoral reverses due to the way of voting, Jules Cesne was made elect in the first district of Le Havre, thanks to the working voices. In 1872, it again gained the House of Commons where it decided in particular for the nationalization of the railroads, project badly seen in a country largely acquired with the economic liberalism. It was decided to present to the election November 16th 1873, but it withdrew its candidature vis-a-vis that of the Letellier-Valazé general whose success was ardently wished by Thiers.

The February 20th 1876, it obtained, in the first district of Le Havre the relative majority against three republican competitors and a preserving competitor which all, disappeared with the second turn. Cesne took seat with the extreme left of the House of Commons. Re-elected in October 1877, it sat with the left and was member of the General advice of Seine-Lower for the canton of Graville. Reached by the disease, he died one year before France is not chaired by its first republican president in the person of Jules Grévy.

One of the large arteries and a Vocational school of the city of Le Havre, of which it was a figure impossible to circumvent, bears its name.

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