See also: Ulysses Trélat

Ulysses Trélat is a doctor and French politician born with Montargis (Loiret) the 22 brumaire year IV (November 13rd 1795) and died in Menton (the Alpes-Maritimes) the January 29th 1879.

Biography

Wire of Edme Trélat, Notary in Montargis, Ulysses Trélat studied the Médecine with Paris in 1810. Named, at eighteen years, military assistant-surgeon, it was, at the time of the Campagne of 1813, sent to Metz where it failed to die Typhus. It returned to continue its medical studies in Paris in March 1814. After the return of isle of Elba, it took share with the defense of Paris in the rows of the voluntary gunners. Receipt, to the competition, internal to Charenton, it passed its doctorate in 1821 and specialized like Aliéniste.

Under the monarchy of July

It entered then in policy the rows of the liberals. One of the founders of the Company “Assistance you, the sky will help you”, it fought on the barricades at the time of the Three Glorious and was named police chief of the Société of the Friends of the people near the provisional government. He protested against the advent of Louis-Philippe, was shown of plot and was discharged by the Court of Assizes.

He then went to Clermont-Ferrand to take the direction of the Patriote Puy-de-Dôme until in 1835. He returned to Paris to take part in the defense of marked of April and, by seeing among the judges some of his former companions of the secret societies, he did not spare the attacks to them. At the time of the lawsuit of the defenders of shown April, which proceeded before the court of the pars of the May 29th to the June 4th 1835, he was most heavily condemned, with 11  000 francs of damages and with three years of prison with Clairvaux.

Returned with freedom by the general Amnesty of 1837, it took again the exercise of medicine and became, with the contest, doctor of the Salpêtrière (1840), functions which it still exerted at the time of the revolution of 1848.

Under the Second Republic

Extraordinary police chief of the provisional government in the departments of the Puy-de-Dôme, To combine it, of the Digs and of the High-Vienna, it was named, its return, mayor of the 12th district of Paris, chair commission of colonization, Lieutenant-colonel of the 12th legion under the orders of Armand Barbès, and Colonel of the cavalry of the national guard.

Elected official, the April 23rd 1848, representing Puy-de-Dôme with the constituent Assembly, it was selected as vice-president by the Parliament and was named, the May 12th according to, public Minister for Labor.

At this station, it was with the catches with the delicate question of the national Ateliers. In the meeting of the May 18th, he asked that “one return to each workman his instruments of work. The workman receives in this moment only one disguised alms, it does only one sterile work. The national workshops are only one provisional organization; it is necessary that they cease as fast as possible. An enormous population is thrown on the national workshops, the number was the other day of 80  000, a few days after 100  000, it is of 115  000 today”. It started by making transport to Bordeaux the large organizer of the workshops, Emile Thomas, “on mission extraordinary”, wrote the Monitor , “by determination of doctor”, declared the minister with the Parliament.

Resistances which the commission known as “of Luxembourg opposed” and the uncertainty of the Parliament paralyzed her intentions. Obliged, the June 15th, to come to ask for a new credit of 3 million for the national workshops, it was seen reproaching by Falloux “its culprit inaction”, and required the immediate nomination of a special subcommittee, which was made. The commission took for task the most promptly to close possible this “caravanserai of unemployment”: it started by eliminating 25  000 workmen, registered in double, and decided for an immediate and brutal dissolution. Disapproving this measurement, which was the pretext of the days of June, Trélat gave its resignation of minister the June 18th and took again its place with the Parliament.

He voted for the banishment of the Famille of Orleans, for the continuations against Louis Blanc and Marc Caussidière, for the abolition of the capital punishment, for the graduated income, the amendment Grévy, against the sanction of the Constitution by the people, for the whole of the Constitution, against the Rateau proposal, the Expédition of Rome and for the request for committal for trial of the President of the Republic and the ministers.

Hostile with the policy of the Elysium, he was not elected with the legislative Parliament and took again his functions in Salpêtrière. He was there still at the time of the head office of Paris in 1870 and during the Commune. Member (October 1870) of the Public assistance, city council man of Paris for the district of the the Pantheon of 1871 with 1874, and several times president of the council as oldest member, it left the working life in 1875 and spent from now on the winter in the South, where it died in 1879.

He had been named knight of the Légion of honor the July 18th 1849.

One of its sons, Emile Trélat (1821 - 1907), was the founder of the special École of architecture (ESA), and another, Ulysses Trélat (1828-1890), was a famous surgeon.

Publications

  • Precise elementary of hygiene , 1826
  • Of the constitution of the body of the doctors and medical teaching , 1828
  • Historical research on the madness , 1839
  • the lucid madness, studied and considered from the point of view of the family and the company , Paris, Delahaye, 1861: In this work, Ulysses Trélat pleads for the Hygiénisme and the Eugénisme.

He also collaborated in the Journal of the Progress of medical sciences .

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