Ernest Breton — Wikipedia
Ernest Joseph Breton is a French politician born the to Envermeu (Seine-Maritime) in the hamlet of Bray, and died the at 37 rue Pajol in Paris.
A farmer, he was mayor of Envermeu, borough councilor and general councilor in 1888. He was a deputy of Seine-Maritime from 1889 to 1901, registered in the group of progressive republicans.
He died at his home 37 rue Pajol in Paris [ first ] .
Ernest Joseph Breton, son of Joseph Breton (born April 24, 1816-Auberville-sur-Eaulne, hamlet of Envermeu, died August 24, 1845-Envermeu), mayor of Auberville-sur-Eaulne, and Clémence Anastasie Baudoüin ( Born October 26, 1820-Beauval-en-Caux, deceased the – DRAW).
Type of the rural Norman deputy acquired at a moderate republic, Ernest Breton was a native of Bray, a hamlet dependent of Envermeu, in what is called little Caux, east of Dieppe. Son of Joseph Breton, farmer in this town, and Clémence Anastasie Baudoüin, she from Beaunay-en-Caux, who had to have two other children, he seems to have benefited from a certain family ease since, despite the premature death of his Father that the ancestor was going to replace, he was able to do some studies at the college of Eu. Exempted from military service as a widow, he resumed the exploitation and will, throughout his career, qualified as “owner-farmer”. Married in 1871 to the daughter of a farmer, Céleste Léonie Pinchon, neighbor of Douvrend, who died after the birth of her son, the following year, he will console a second time in 1880 – his new wife (Awine Émilie Hémar) brings in dowry 5,000 F – and will have four other children. From a Catholic family but hardly practicing, its centers of interest appear above all earthlings. Member of the agricultural company of the Dieppe district, he was listened to enough to be admitted in 1880 to the Central Society of Agriculture of the Seine-Inférieur. Joined to republican feelings, this professional recognition made him a good candidate for the local elections. Chosen for the borough council, he entered in 1880 to the municipal council of the Bourg of Envermeu, of which he became mayor, a function which he assumed until his death; Finally, in 1888, his election to the General Council inaugurated another mandate for life. Its rooting and this progressive notoriety within the district recommended it for the legislative elections of 1889 in the first is Dieppe district where the problem was to anchor the Republic in countryside still under the influence of notables. Inscited to present itself, Ernest Breton reduces to the minimum in its program the ideological issues – the Republic appears only as guarantor of order and freedoms – for the benefit of concrete objectives capable of retaining an electorate of Norman peasants: ” Reduction of land tax, defense of maritime interests, reduction in land loads, practice of an economy policy…. It earned him to be elected, rightly it is true but in the first round, by 5,454 votes against 5,381 to the conservative candidate, from Laborde-Noguez. In Paris, where he takes up residence in a modest street in XVIII It is Breton arrondissement, Breton is part of the parliamentary group of the Progressive Union. He sticking wisely in the areas that are familiar to him, he intervened in specialized debates: in 1891 on the attachment of part of the Tréport to the municipality of Mers (therefore to the Somme); In 1893, on measures in favor of breeders who saw the livestock courses collapse following a great drought. Now re -elected without incident or even without real competitor to each general election, he immediately crushes his rival Jubault in the legislative elections of August 20, 1893 with 6,384 votes against 3,808 and was again mandated by his constituency in May 1898. Member to the Chamber of Several commissions, without neglecting to relate to projects of very local interest, he also risks, now, to intervene on a general level, in particular from the angle of the budget: that of foreign affairs in 1895, where he criticized the ‘Assignment to an English military transport company to Madagascar, or that of posts and telegraphs the same year. And we saw him in 1899 presenting an amendment to the budget for the financial year in order to increase the parliamentary indemnity …… Died in Paris during the mandate, it was to bury it after religious funeral in the Cemetery of Envermeu. His funeral praise in the House by Georges Cochery, on November 14, 1901, underlines fairly well through his provincial shots the image that his colleagues had of this elected rural elected official: “Son of the busty Normandy who had kept all the vigor of the blood from which he had come (…), he will leave the memory of a republican farm (…), a loyal and modest colleague ”…
The Breton affair Greffulhe [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
THE FACT OF THE DAY
– A candidate of Félix Faure
– How we buy a constituency.
– The adventures of a friend of Mr. Félix Faure.
– The mischiefs of Count Greffulhe.
– The corrupters trapped.
– Epilogue
The electoral history that we have briefly
told yesterday, right now,
A huge noise in political circles.
It is therefore advisable to return to it in detail,
by giving this time the names of the actors of
This funny comedy.
About a month ago, a good man,
which represents the first room the first
Dieppe district, Mr. Breton, arrived
at the Palais-Bourbon in an extraordinary overexcitation state.
He took some of his friends apart,
MM. Balandreau, Ricard, Robbe, etc.,
and told them that agents
electorals of an unknown character had
daring to offer him to buy him, very dear my faith!
His withdrawal in the next elections.
Those present managed to calm Mr. Breton who,
very indignant, spoke of
Pull the ears from the mysterious emissaries.
They made him understand that the violence
rarely served to something and that he
would be infinitely more spiritual to beat the
unknown candidate with his own weapons and
to roll him properly, he and his friends.
The deputy of Dieppe went to these reasons
And when, a few days later, the envoys
returned to knock on his door, they noticed
with satisfaction that Mr. Breton was
Decided to enter into talks.
First negotiations
It’s time to get to know
the principal of negotiators who had accepted
This delicate mission. His name is Séran
and is editor -in -chief of a sheet
reactionary and clerical, the alarm clock and the
Treport.
Seduced by the affected bonhomie of
Mr. Breton, this character was not long in playing
Cards on table. He admitted that he was acting for
The account of Count Greffulhe, personal friend
of Mr. Félix Faure and candidate of M.Méline,
and outright exposed the conditions of
market.
You have no chance of succeeding
in the next elections, he said to the deputy for
Dieppe. The cabinet is determined to fight you and,
As you don’t have the penny, you
are beaten in advance. If you consent to you,
withdraw and withdraw you in favor of our
customer, you assure yourself a superb situation
and comfortable ease for your old days ”,
Here, indeed, what were the appreciable
Advantages offered in return for withdrawals
Mr. Breton was to receive 50,000 francs
cash and 50,000 francs after the election. We
also promised his appointment to
the inspection of an important agricultural union.
Her son -in -law, finally, was to be appointed to
a perception of Paris-on had to this
regard for Mr. Méline’s promise
These attractive offers appeared to make Mr. Breton.
He asked to think, and the envoy retired, convinced
that the case was in the bag.
Trapped
He returned a few days later, and soon
Interviews succeeded the interviews. They
took place in Bray-Envermeu, around
de Dieppe, on the farm exploited Mr. Breton.
One day, we seemed to be completely
okay and a last meeting was made
to fix exactly the conditions of
CONTRACT.
That day, in a room, from the farm and in
presence of M me Breton, Mr. Séran resumed
one by one its proposals. For his part,
Dieppe’s deputy declared that his party
was taken, and he promised the friend of Mr. Greflulhe
to give him his withdrawal in Paris, to
Café de la Paix, Thursday, March 10, an hour
of the afternoon.
The other enchanted party, dreaming of the Commission
that the noble count would not miss
not to pay him. He did not suspect, alas
that a moment before, while he renewed
for the tenth time his attempt to
corruption, two honorable municipal councilors
MM. Hébert and.Fernand Robbe, hidden in a neighboring room,
attended this haggling suggestive.
An hour later, a report, reporting
in all its details this edifying scene,
was written by the two invisible witnesses
and given to the notary of the place.
Last act
We arrive at the last act. Five per-
lunch lunches in the cabinet n O 11 of
Cafe of peace. It’s Mr. Breton, MM. Hébert
and Robbe, “two writers
Mr. Albreche and Mr. Cottençon, an honorable trader
from rue Pajol neighboring Mr. Breton,
A moment later, we warned the guests
of the arrival of Mr. Séran, who, according to the
orders given, had been introduced. In the
neighboring room, the cabinet n O ten,
Mr. Breton went there immediately – having
care to let the door entrete – and it
found Séran in the company of another character
very elegant and responding to the name
Aristocratic of Saint-Ogan. It was, seems-
He, the chief agent of Count Greffulhe
and loaded as such to finish negotiation.
The scene only lasted a minute. M.
Saint-Ogun released a portfolio coldly,
Settle on the table fifty thousand tickets
And stretched the deputy the parts he had promised to sign.
Here we just have to reproduce the
minutes drawn up a few moments after
by the four witnesses of this singular comedy;
Minutes
Paris, March 10, 1898.
The undersigned certify the facts set out below:
According to the appointment made between Mr. Breton and
Mr. Séran, Monday, March 7, Consignant Rendez-vous
In the act submitted, the 9 current, in Maître frozen
Noteire À Diver, M. Saint-Oogan, M. Séran et
Mr. Breton found themselves at the time fixed, two
hours and a half, today March 10, at the café de
Peace in Paris, in the living room n O ten.
– The undersigned were themselves, before
The arrival of these gentlemen in the living room n* 11, contigu
in the living room n O 10, and they heard the following;
Mr. Séran having presented Mr. Saint-Ogan,
representative of Mr. Greflulhe, to Mr. Breton,
Mr. Saint-Qgan read to Mr. Breton the letters which had been
Make for Mr. Breton’s withdrawal to the deputation.
These letters are given to M, Breton as
having been written and written, one, by M. Bignon fils,
mayor of the city of Eu, and a written: by Mr.
Saint-ongan, copied with some modifications
on that of Mr. Bignon.
These letters were, after signing of Mr. Bre-.
tone, be given to the newspapers to be sent
to voters.
One, that of Mr. Saint-Ogan, is written on
Black border paper with bedroom header
deputies, and the other, that of Mr. Bignon,
on free paper.
These letters are in the possession of the undersigned
and will serve them if necessary.
Another letter, written according to the words of Mr. Saint
by the hand of Mr. Bignon fils, is a model
What Mr. Breton had to write to voters
to prevent them from that he did not desist in favor
by M. Jubault.
– Then, all the promises made by Mr. Séran
to mr. Breton, the 9 current and previously,
That is to say 50,000 francs in a row, 50,000 francs after the
elections, an inspector place for Mr. Breton
in an agricultural union which would have mounted
in the capital of 40 million francs, a place
of a collector in the best perception of Paris for the
son -in -law of Mr. Breton, were renewed by
Mr. Saint-Ogan, who added that Mr. President
of the Republic was aware of this affair
to which he gave his approval entirely.
Mr. Saint-Ongan, firmly convinced that the case
was over, released an envelope out of his pocket
containing a bundle of banknotes,
and placed it on the table, opening the envelope for
Show the contents.
At that time, on a signal agreed with Mr.
Breton, the undersigned have opened the communication door
(through which they had heard everything)
and burst into the neighboring cabinet
where they saw: on the table the tickets coming out in
part of the envelope, Mr. Saint-Ogan and Mr. Séran seated,
and M. Breton standing holding the originals,
letters of which he was spoken above and which
had been given by Mr. Saint-Ogan.
At the appearance of the undersigned, Mr.
bank, and on these words by Mr. Fernand
Robbe, one of the undersigned: “We have everything in full and we see”,
Mr. Saint-Ogan immediately put this envelope in the left pocket
of his garment.
We must agree that Mr. Saint
appeared to be laid. He took his hat and did not say
No word.
But Mr. Séran rushed to Mr. Breton,
by saying in a begging tone: let’s see,
Mr. Breton, you are an honest man,
Give me the papers!
On the refusal of Mr. Breton, these two gentlemen are
are removed.
We certify on the honor that the facts are
have passed as they are reported above, and
We signed:
COTTENÇON ;
Hébert, borough advisor;
Ernand Robbe, borough advisor;
Albreche, Rentier, à Diver.
You might think history ends there
– Not at all. We must, in
effect, relate two documents which will hold
an honorable place in the account of this
buffoonery.
It is first the following letter, from the
comte Greffulhe ;
Sir,
I read indignantly, in the small French republic this morning,
the story of a
attempted corruption which would have been committed by a
of my agents on the person of Mr. Breton,
deputy.
I completely ignore what has. could pass. I
have been suffering for a few weeks and I
am even apologized to my friends from the Seine-
lower by a letter dated March 8, published
in the newspapers in the department
But I highly affirm that I have never allowed
person to use a process that I cling
With the last energy.
Agree, sir, the assurance of my distinguished consideration.
Comte Greffulhe
It’s heard. Count Greffulhe is innocent
like the child who has just been born.
All this is the fault of friends that are too zealous
who compromised it without knowing anything about it.
Friends even pushed zeal until
Take 50,000 francs on their savings
to devote them to the success of the wealthy
gentleman. Braves liors l
The other document is no less suggestive.
Here is the letter that Mr. Séran addresses to
editor -in -chief of the small Republic.
Paris, March 11, 1898.
Sir,
The little Republic questions me this morning
About an alleged attempted corruption,
And she represents me as an agent of M. de
Saint-Ongan, who would have liked to buy the withdrawal
of Mr. Breton, deputy of the Seine-Inférieur.
The truth is quite different.
On the contrary, it is as friend of Mr. Breton and
on his absolute request that I agreed to see in
His name M. de Saint-Ogan.
I links at your disposal the full story of
facts that have been so singularly distorted by him
And that I challenge him to deny.
But what I want, to establish now is
that I only know M. de Saint-Ogan since
six weeks, while I was in relations with
M, Breton for many years, having
made for him the electoral campaign of 1889.
This simple observation indicates enough
What side comes from the initiative of maneuvers
that the friends of Mr. Breton denounce today
with so much radiance.
Receive, sir, my greetings.
V. Séran
Director of L’Echo de la Bresle au Tréport.
What is terrible in this letter,
It is because it announces new revelations.
What are we going to learn again?
Provided that it is not Mr. Breton who
tried to buy Mr. Greffulhe!
What is certain is that despite the denials,
Mr. Breton, whom we saw yesterday,
vigorously maintains the accuracy of
facts that we relate above.
We would be wrong, moreover, to exaggerate
importance.
Count Greffulhe does not even have the merit of having invented
the processes he used, and which,
For a long time, have been in honor in electoral matters.
The whole thing is to use it skillfully.
However, there is no to say, M, graft was there
badly taken.
At Mr. Breton
One of our colleagues from the Little Republic,
Who could see Mr. Breton last night, submitted him, the letter from the Clerical Journalist Séran:
This letter is a fabric of lies! its
Written M, Breton, I oppose false allegations
of Mr. Séran the most categorical denial
and the most formal.
First, I was never the friend of this individual.
I had with him the relations that all elected from the provinces
A with the director of a newspaper of his constituency.
Mr. Seran says that it is on a request
absolute that he agreed to see, in my name,
M.De Saint -ogan.
This is false, absolutely false.
Mr. Breton recalls the first visit that
Séran made him in January 1898. The latter
said he had been charged by Mr. Greffulhe to fight him;
and that he had already touched a serious deposit:
“I touched the cake. It’s going to work.
Graft is more generous than the Count of Paris, ”
Mr. Breton added that in 1889 the newspaper of
Séran, who supported the royalist candidate,
fought his candidacy.
Two men
We have to compare both
men who will be, for a few
days, at the foreground of the news. Mr. Breton
is a man in his fifty years,
to the open physiognomy, at large
worker hands; It is a peasant who
cultivates his land and lives modestly from his
product.
Count Greffulhe is a gentle man;
He is forty-five years old, a beautiful
Blonde beard and pay without embarrassment, 300,000
francs per year to maintain only one of the
Superb hunts of which Mr. Félix Faure deigns
be the ordinary host.
The first is a member of the Agriculture Council
of the Dieppe district;
The second is a member of Jockey and the Union.
One is deputy, the other was and would like the
become again. Mr. Breton has no parliamentary history;
Count Greffulhe has one,
since he once risked being invalidated for
countless facts of electoral corruption
who made a certain noise at the time.
Aded. ( Dawn , Saturday March 12, 1898)
Sources and bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
- Seine-Maritime Departmental Archives, 4 E 5179, 5182, 11104: Civil status: 2 E 37/171: Marriage contract. 3 MP 915: municipal elections of Envemeu. 3m 463: elections to the General Council.
- Rouen’s Journal And The little Rouennais , November 1901
- Robert Eude, The General Council of Seine-Inférieur , Rouen, 1942.
- “Ernest Breton”, in the Dictionary of French parliamentarians (1889-1940) , under the direction of Jean Jolly, PUF, 1960 [Edition detail]
- Dawn , Saturday March 12, 1898
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