Adrien de Gasparin

Adrien Étienne Pierre, comte de Gasparin (June 29, 1783 in Orange, Vaucluse – September 7, 1862 in Orange, Vaucluse) was a French statesman and agriculturist.

Biography

He entered the army, but was soon compelled by illness to give up military life. After the revolution of 1830 he was made successively prefect of the departments of Loire and Isère, and in 1831 of Rhône. For his promptness in suppressing an insurrection at Lyons in 1834, he was raised to the peerage. He became minister of the interior in 1836, and gave his attention especially to prison reforms and the establishment of hospitals. He occupied the same position in the short-lived cabinet of March 1839. In 1848 he accepted the management of the national agricultural institute at Versailles. The institute was abolished in 1852.

Literary works

He published a large number of papers and several extended works on agricultural subjects, the principal of which is Cours d'agriculture (5 vols., Paris, 1843–49).

Family

His father Thomas-Augustin de Gasparin was a military officer in the French Revolutionary army and a member of the Committee of Public Safety. His son Agénor de Gasparin was a noted politician and author, who emigrated to Geneva.

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References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Gasparin, Adrien Étienne Pierre, count de" . The American Cyclopædia.

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Cabinet of Victor de Broglie (12 March 1835 to 22 February 1836)

Head of state: King Louis Philippe I

President of the council

Victor de Broglie

Victor de Broglie

Foreign Affairs

Victor de Broglie

Interior

• Adolphe Thiers
• Adrien de Gasparin (Sub-Secretary of State)

Justice

Jean-Charles Persil

War

• Henri de Rigny (interim)
• Nicolas Joseph Maison

Finance

• Georges Humann
• Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout

Navy and Colonies

Guy-Victor Duperré

Public Education

François Guizot

Commerce

Tanneguy Duchâtel