Charles de Freycinet | |
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![]() Freycinet (c. 1880) by Nadar | |
Minister of War | |
In office 1 November 1898 – 18 February 1899 | |
Prime Minister | Charles Dupuy |
Preceded by | Charles Chanoine |
Succeeded by | Camille Krantz |
In office 3 April 1888 – 10 January 1893 | |
Prime Minister | Charles Floquet Pierre Tirard Himself Émile Loubet Alexandre Ribot |
Preceded by | François Logerot |
Succeeded by | Julien Loizillon |
Prime Minister of France | |
In office 17 March 1890 – 27 February 1892 | |
President | Sadi Carnot |
Preceded by | Pierre Tirard |
Succeeded by | Émile Loubet |
In office 7 January 1886 – 16 December 1886 | |
President | Jules Grévy |
Preceded by | Henri Brisson |
Succeeded by | René Goblet |
In office 30 January 1882 – 7 August 1882 | |
President | Jules Grévy |
Preceded by | Léon Gambetta |
Succeeded by | Charles Duclerc |
In office 28 December 1879 – 23 September 1880 | |
President | Jules Grévy |
Preceded by | William Waddington |
Succeeded by | Jules Ferry |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 28 December 1879 – 3 December 1886 | |
Prime Minister | Himself Henri Brisson |
Preceded by | Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour |
Succeeded by | Émile Flourens |
Minister of Public Works | |
In office 13 December 1877 – 28 December 1879 | |
Prime Minister | Jules Dufaure William Waddington |
Preceded by | Michel Graeff |
Succeeded by | Henri Varroy |
Member of the French Senate for Seine | |
In office 30 January 1876 – 11 January 1920 | |
Succeeded by | Louis Dausset |
Personal details | |
Born | Foix, Ariège, France | 14 November 1828
Died | 14 May 1923 Paris, France | (aged 94)
Political party | Republican Union (1871–1885) Union of the Lefts (1885–1894) League of Patriots (1894–1923) |
Spouse |
Jeanne Alexandrine Bosc
(m. 1858; died 1923) |
Education | École Polytechnique |
Profession | Engineer |
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Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (French: [ʃaʁl də fʁɛjsinɛ]; 14 November 1828 – 14 May 1923) was a French statesman who served four times as Prime Minister during the Third Republic. He also served an important term as Minister of War (1888–1893). He belonged to the Moderate Republican faction.
He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1890, the fourteenth member to occupy a seat in the Académie Française.