Jules de Lasteyrie
(1810-1883)
BIRTH
October 29, 1810
PLACE
DEATH
November 14, 1883
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Virginie du Motier de Lafayette
(1782-1849)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
MODERATE REPUBLICAN
FRENCH CENTRE LEFT PARLIAMENTARY GROUP MEMBER, FRENCH CENTRE RIGHT PARLIAMENTARY GROUP MEMBER, FRENCH TIERS PARTI MEMBER
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Jules de Lasteyrie (1810–1883), Lafayette’s grandson, was a French writer and politician. After serving Dom Pedro’s campaign in Portugal, he entered parliament in 1842. Initially an Orléanist, he opposed Louis-Napoléon’s coup and was briefly expelled from France in 1852. He published a history of political liberty in 1860, returned to the Assembly in 1871, and became a senator for life in 1875. His later politics supported the conservative republic associated with Thiers.
EARLY LIFE
Jules de Lasteyrie was born on Oct 29, 1810. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
Lasteyrie entered public life through military service and journalism. A grandson of Lafayette, he accompanied Dom Pedro's expedition against the rule of Miguel in Portugal as an aide-de-camp, then contributed articles to the Revue des Deux Mondes. Elected deputy for La Flèche in the Sarthe in 1842, he sat with the center-left opposition under the July Monarchy and retained his seat in 1846.
After the revolution of 1848 he represented Seine-et-Marne in the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies. He supported the conservative majority, including the expedition to Rome and restrictions on universal suffrage, but opposed Louis-Napoleon's personal seizure of power. His protest against the coup of December 1851 led to expulsion from France in 1852, though he was permitted to return that August. Under the Second Empire he published Histoire de la liberté politique en France in 1860 and unsuccessfully contested legislative elections in 1863 and 1869.
Elected to the National Assembly in 1871, Lasteyrie followed Adolphe Thiers toward acceptance of a conservative republic. He shifted from the center-right to the center-left and voted for the constitutional laws establishing the Third Republic. In December 1875 the Assembly elected him a senator for life. Despite illness, he attended key divisions, opposed dissolution of the Chamber in 1877, and supported moderate republican ministries while resisting some educational measures. He was a senator until his death in Paris in November 1883.
CAREER
DEATH
Jules de Lasteyrie, Lafayette’s grandson, was a French writer and politician. After serving Dom Pedro’s campaign in Portugal, he entered parliament in 1842. Initially an Orléanist, he opposed Louis-Napoléon’s coup and was briefly expelled from France in 1852. Elected to the National Assembly in 1871, Lasteyrie followed Adolphe Thiers toward acceptance of a conservative republic. In December 1875 the Assembly elected him a senator for life. Despite illness, he attended key divisions, opposed dissolution of the Chamber in 1877, and supported moderate republican ministries while resisting some educational measures. He was a senator until his death in Paris in November 1883. He shifted from the center-right to the center-left and voted for the constitutional laws establishing the Third Republic. Jules de Lasteyrie died on Nov 14, 1883. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
This entry concerns Jules de Lasteyrie (1810–1883), the French writer, politician and grandson of Lafayette. His writings and parliamentary reference are supplemented by clearly labelled related family and political histories. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, biographical reference and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, 1789–1889 — Adolphe Robert; Edgar Bourloton; Gaston Cougny (editors). [Biographical reference; French] Find on Amazon
2. Histoire de la liberté politique en France — Jules de Lasteyrie. [Primary political and historical writing; French] Find on Amazon
3. Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions — Lloyd Kramer. [Related family and political biography] Find on Amazon
4. The French Second Republic: A Social History — Roger Price. [Related political and social history] Find on Amazon
5. The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France — Philip Nord. [Related political history] Find on Amazon
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