Louis de Carné

Louis-Marie de Carné (17 February 1804, Quimper, Finistère – 11 February 1876, Plomelin), comte de Carné was a French politician, journalist and historian.

Biography

Founder of the newspaper le Correspondant in 1829, conseiller général for Finistère, député from 1839 to 1846, he was also a contributor to the Journal des débats and the Revue des deux mondes as well as one of the founders of the Société d'économie charitable and of the Société internationale des études pratiques d'économie sociale. Supported by the opponents of the Second French Empire (Montalembert, Dupanloup, Guizot), he was elected to the Académie française le 23 avril 1863, on the third scrutiny, against Émile Littré.

He was president of the Société archéologique du Finistère until his death.[1]

Works

References

  1. Les Noms qui ont fait l'histoire de Bretagne, Coop Breizh & Institut culturel de Bretagne, 1997, p. 76.
  2. Les Noms qui ont fait l'histoire de Bretagne, Coop Breizh et Institut culturel de Bretagne, 1997, p. 76.

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