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CASSAGNAC, See also:BERNARD ADOLPHE GRANIER DE (1806—1880) , See also:French journalist, was See also:born at Averon-Bergelle in the See also:department of See also:Gers on the 11th of See also:August 1806. In 1832 he began his career as a Parisian journalist, contributing ardent defences of Romanticism and Conservatism to the Revue de See also:Paris, the See also:Journal See also:des Debats, and to La Presse. Then he founded a See also:political journal, L'Epoque (1845—1848), in which his violent polemics in support of See also:Guizot brought him notoriety and not a few duels. In 1851, in the Constitutionnel, he declared himself openly an imperialist; and in 1852 was elected as " See also:official See also:candidate " by the department of Gers. As journalist and See also:deputy he actively supported an absolutist policy. He demanded the restoration of See also:religion, opposed the See also:laws in favour of the See also:press, and was a member of the dub of the See also:rue de 1'See also:Arcade. In See also:March 1868 he accused the Liberal deputies of having received See also:money from the See also:king of See also:Prussia for opposing the See also:emperor, and when called upon for See also:proof, submitted only false or trivial documents. After the See also:proclamation of the See also:republic (4th of See also:September 1870) he fled to See also:Belgium. He returned to See also:France for the elections of 1876, and was elected deputy. He continued to combat all the republican reforms, but with no See also:advantage to his party. He died on the 31st of See also:January 1880. In addition to his journalistic articles he published various See also:historical See also:works, now unimportant.

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PAUL ADOLPHE See also:MARIE PROSPER GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC (1843—1904), while still See also:young was associated with his See also:father in both politics and journalism. In 1866 he became editor of the Conservative See also:paper Le Pays, and figured in a See also:long See also:series of political duels. On the See also:declaration of See also:war in 1890 he volunteered for service and was taken prisoner at See also:Sedan. On his return from See also:prison in a fortress in See also:Silesia he continued to defend the Bonapartist cause in Le Pays, against both Republicans and Royalists. Elected deputy for the department of Gers in 1876, he adopted in the chamber a policy of obstruction "to discredit the republican regime." In 1877 he openly encouraged See also:MacMahon to See also:attempt a Bonapartist coup d'etat, but the See also:marshal's refusal and the See also:death of the See also:prince imperial foiled his hopes. He now played but a secondary r6le in the chamber, and occupied himself mostly with the direction of the journal L'Autorite, which he had founded. He was not re-elected in 1902, and died in See also:November 1904. His sons took over L'Autorite and the belligerent traditions of the See also:family.

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