Louis Étienne Arthur du Breuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière (1816 – 23 December 1875) was a French politician and aristocrat, the member of a notable Poitou family.
Biography
editAlthough from early on connected with Legitimism, he became closely associated with the Republican Alphonse de Lamartine, to whose paper, Le Bien Public, he was a principal contributor. After Le Bien Public came to an end, he wrote for La Presse, and in 1850 edited Le Pays.[1]
A character sketch of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in this journal caused differences with Lamartine, and La Guéronnière became more and more closely identified with the policy of the prince-president. Under the Second Empire, he was a member of the Conseil d'État (1853), senator (1861), ambassador to Belgium (1868), and to the Ottoman Empire (1870), and Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur (1866). He died in Paris.[1]
Besides his Études et portraits politiques contemporains (1856) his most important works are those on the foreign policy of the Empire: La France, Rome et Italie (1851), Le Pape et le Congrès (1859), L'Abandon de Rome (1862), De la politique intérieure et extérieure de la France (1862).[1]
His elder brother, Alfred du Breuil Helion, comte de La Guéronnière (1810–1884), who remained faithful to the Legitimist party, was also a well-known writer and journalist. He was consistent in his opposition to the July Monarchy and the Empire, but in a series of books on the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 showed a more favorable attitude to the Third French Republic.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "La Guéronnière, Louis Étienne Arthur Dubreuil Hélion". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 79.
