Martin Nadaud

Martin Nadaud , born the November 17th 1815 in the hamlet of Martinèche, with Soubrebost (Digs), and dead the December 28th 1898 at the same place, is a French mason and politician.

Biography

Wire of farmers, Léonard Nadaud and Marie Julien, his father holds so that his son has instruction, in spite of the opposition of his wife and of the remainder of the family. The March 26th 1830, at the 16 years age, Martin leaves to Paris with his/her father, mason in the Hollow one. He then discovers the work conditions of his similar: days from 12 to 1 p.m., dangerous work on the scaffolding, malnutrition, unsanitary housings… He escapes itself with several accidents. At 19 years, he is foreman.

Anxious to perfect its instruction, he attends the courses of the evening and, as from 1838, ensures some for his/her young companions. He attends the socialist meetings, discovers with interest the doctrines of Cabet and adopts the communist ideas.

It Marie the February 23rd 1839 with Jeanne Aupetit. His/her only daughter, Wished, is born in 1845 (bride with Victor Bouquet, of which it had 3 children: Marie, Helene and Louis). He attends the socialist Pierre Leroux and, in 1840, finds himself among the leaders of the working demonstration of the plain of Bondy.

After the Revolution of February 1848, it chairs the club of the inhabitants of Hollow Paris and starts to be made known. Its popularity in the mediums of the emigration as its ease with speaking as a public make some, the beginnings of the Second Republic, a delegate at the commission of the Luxembourg, an adviser industrial tribunal and a candidate with the Constituante of 1848.

Initially beaten first once, the April 23rd 1848, it is elected the May 13rd 1849 appointed the Hollow one, 4th on 6, with the legislative Parliament by 15.240 votes out of 39.471 voters and 73.014 registered voters. At the time, he works on the building site of the town hall of the 12 {{E}} district. Sitting at the Mountain, on the benches of the socialist republicans, it frequently intervenes with the platform, voter against the Expédition of Rome, the law Falloux-Parein on teaching and the law restricting the vote for all, and is opposed to the policy Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. It also presents a proposal for a relative law to expropriations required by great public works of the time. At the time of the Coup d'etat of December 2nd, 1851, it is stopped in the night. His wife dies the December 21st of this same year.

The January 9th 1852, it is banished by decree and is exiled in Belgium, before leaving for London, where it takes again its trade of mason. The February 29th 1852, it joins together on its name 707 votes against 22.266 with Sallandrouze de Lamornaix, the official candidate, at the time of the elections to the legislative Body in the 2nd district of the Hollow one. Its health degrading themselves, and having learned English, he becomes teacher with London and Brighton in 1855, then French professor at the Military academy of Wimbledon. He attends others exiled like Victor Hugo, Louis Blanc, Etienne Cabet and Pierre Leroux.

When the war between France and Prussia bursts, it regains its country and collaborates in the Réveil of Delescluze. The September 6th 1870, Leon Gambetta appoints it prefect of the Hollow one. Radical republican candidate with the National Assembly the February 8th 1871, it however fails to conquer a seat of deputy there, obtaining 10 4364 votes out of 50.111 voters. He fails in the same way in the Seine at the time of the elections complementary to the July 5th. On the other hand, the July 25th, it is elected city council man of Paris by the district of the Father-Lachaise (20 {{E}} district). This station, it is mobilized on the labor question and for the revival of the activity of the building, but also the rebuilding of the Town hall), the improvement of hygiene and the construction of a subway.

It enters to the House of Commons the February 20th 1876 like republican deputy of the district of Bourganeuf, having obtained 4083 votes out of 8002 voters and 10.717 registered voters. Sitting at the extreme-left, it belongs to the 363. The November 25th 1876, of the sides of other members of Parliament (Boysset, Barodet, Margie, Lockroy, Madier de Montjau, White, Georges Perin, Floquet, Turigny, Ordinary Louis and Duportal) it requires the suppression of the budget of the worships.

Re-elected the October 14th 1877 by 4311 votes out of 7081 voters and 10.766 registered voters, it takes again his place on the benches of the Republican majority. While defending the socialist ideas, it approaches the republican Union of Gambetta, collaborating in the French Republic . Re-elected in Bourganeuf the August 21st 1881 by 5177 votes out of 5664 voters and 11.154 registered voters, it still approaches the policy of the opportunist governments and is made elect by the Room at the post of questeur, whom it occupies until the end of the legislature.

Candidate of the republican list the October 4th 1885, it is re-elected appointed the Hollow one, 1st on 4, by 33.020 votes out of 52.403 voters and 77.888 registered voters. Re-elected with the functions of questeur, it supports the policy of the various ministries to the Room

Like deputy, it defends the introduction of working retirements in 1879, of protections against the industrial accidents, on which it intervenes on several occasions (1881, 1883 and 1888) to make recognize the responsibility for the employer (law of 1898). He asks also the Amnistie Communards and fights for the development of a laic teaching in each department, supporting the law of the March 28th 1882 (law Ferry) on the state education. Like town councilor, his great pride is to have obtained the realization of the railway line of Bourganeuf to Vieilleville inaugurated in 1883.

It is still presented to the senatorial elections of 1894, but undergoes a Net failure. It devotes its last years to the writing. He dies in his native village in 1893. He is buried in Soubrebost, in the presence of a large crowd and majority of the local personalities, the socialist deputy Antonin Desfarges, the radical senator-mayor of Guéret Ferdinand Villard, the prefect radical socialist Edgar Monteil and the president of the freethinking of Pontarion Laurent.

Mandates of deputy

Hollow: May 13rd 1849 - Hollow December 2nd 1851
: February 20th 1876 - Hollow June 25th 1877
: October 14th 1877 - Hollow October 27th 1881
: August 21st 1881 - Hollow November 9th 1885
: October 4th 1885 - November 11th 1889

Anecdote

a subway station bore its name, but is replaced today by the station Gambetta.

Quotations

You know it, in Paris, when the building goes, all benefits from its activity. (Speech with the National Assembly in 1850), faded in “ When the building goes, all goes ”.

One morning, my boy arrived holding with the hand a letter. The envelope carried " Nadaud citizen, representative of the peuple". The following days, one came to compliment me, so much that appeared strange then to see arriving at the House of Commons a simple bricklayer's mate… ( Memories of Léonard ).

Soft, serious and firm, free from all bad passion…, its interior dignity radiates gently in its manners, which are those of a true gentleman , George Sand.

Martin Nadaud lived 18 years in England. It is during this stay, at the price of a keen labor which it the culture which it acquired missed. It is this stay which will make an anglophile with all hairs of it… , Daniel Dayen, Martin Nadaud, mason and appointed

Works

History of the working classes in England , 1872
working Companies , 1873
Memories of Léonard , Bourgagneuf, A. Doubeix, 1895 (Egloff republication, 1948; Hatchet, 1976; Maspéro, 1982). On the life of the migrants of years 1830/1848.

See too

Random links: