Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol

Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol is a journalist and essay writer French, born in Paris the August 8th 1829 and died in Washington the July 20th 1870.

Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol made his studies with the College of Bourbon and the National university and was named professor of French literature to Aix-en-Provence in 1855. He occupied this function only during one year and resigned to become one of the principal writers of the Journal of DEBATEs . He also collaborated in the Courrier of Sunday and, very briefly, in the Press .

He was one of the principal representatives of the liberal opposition to the Second Empire, which was worth a stay in prison to him.

In 1865, it was elected with the French Academy to replace Jean-Jacques Ampère. This election caused the scandal because of the young age of interested and the weakness of its stock of literary knowledge, which was primarily composed of its Essais of policy and literature (3 series, 1859 - 1866) and of Essais on the French moralists (1864).

With the come to power of Emile Ollivier, Prévost-Paradol accepted a liberal evolution of the Empire and accepted the post of minister of France to the the United States, which him was worth very violent attacks on behalf of the Republican party to him. Hardly it was installed in its station which the war of 1870 burst. Despaired, Prévost-Paradol committed suicide of a blow of revolver.

The prophet of the tragedy of the 20th century

Prévost-Paradol had envisaged very well the rise to power of Germany which was going soon to supplant France like dominant power in Europe. However, he saw even further and predicts that this domination would be of short duration: indeed, it analyzed the demography of the principal powers of the time, the United States, the British Empire, Russia and Germany.

These four empires knew a very important demographic expansion, which will be at the base of their power. However, the demographic expansion of Germany, much higher than that of France, generated a current of emigration in North America, which reinforced the Anglo-Saxons. According to Prévost-Paradol, the will of Germany to occupy the first place was impossible because terrestrial space was already shared and that it arrived too late. This expansion was going to already cause a conflict with the powers in place, the United States, the British Empire and Russia, which would not fail to unite themselves to crush Germany. It is what occurred and Prévost-Paradol predicts it 80 years front.

External bonds

Biographical note of the French Academy

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