- Pierre-Paul Guieysse
Pierre-Paul Guieysse, (
May 11 ,1841 –May 19 ,1914 ) was a French Socialist politician. He was Minister of the Colonies in the French Cabinet headed byLéon Bourgeois between 1895 and 1896.Life
He was born in
Lorient , Brittany, of aProtestant family. He trained as a hydrographic engineer, working for the navy, but developed scholarly and political interests, becoming a specialist inEgyptology and being active in leftist politics. In May 1900 he co-founded the newspaper "La Dépêche de Lorient".Guieyesse was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a Radical and Republican Deputy for
Morbihan between 1890 and 1910. He was active in the debate over the1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State , to which he proposed an amendment. [ [http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/eglise-etat/chronologie.asp Assemblee Nationale] ] He was also active in the promotion of legislation to make pension contributions compulsory.Guiyesse was also president of the
Bleus de Bretagne (Breton Blues) a society of liberal and anticlerical Bretons. He played the dominant role in organizing the erection of the controversial statue ofErnest Renan in Tréguier.From November 1895 to April 1896 he was Minister of Colonies, in the Bourgeois government.
Marcel Guieysse, one of his sons, became a militant
Breton nationalist .Political career
Local politics
*General Counsel of Morbihan from 1881 to 1889
National Deputy for Morbihan
*Morbihan: February 9, 1890 - October 14, 1893
*Morbihan: August 20, 1893 - May 31, 1898
*Morbihan: May 8, 1898 - May 31, 1902
*Morbihan: 11 May 1902 - May 31, 1906
*Morbihan: May 20, 1906 - May 31, 1910References
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