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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERNARD ADOLPHE GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC (1806—1880)  , French journalist, was born at Averon-Bergelle in the department of
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Gers on the 11th of August 1806 . In 1832 he began his career as a Parisian journalist, contributing ardent defences of Romanticism and Conservatism to the Revue de Paris, the Journal
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des Debats, and to La Presse . Then he founded a
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political journal, L'Epoque (1845—1848), in which his violent polemics in support of Guizot brought him notoriety and not a few duels . In 1851, in the Constitutionnel, he declared himself openly an imperialist; and in 1852 was elected as " official
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candidate " by the department of Gers . As journalist and deputy he actively supported an absolutist policy . He demanded the restoration of religion, opposed the
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laws in favour of the press, and was a member of the dub of the rue de 1'
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Arcade . In March 1868 he accused the Liberal deputies of having received
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money from the king of Prussia for opposing the emperor, and when called upon for proof, submitted only false or trivial documents . After the proclamation of the republic (4th of September 1870) he fled to Belgium . He returned to France for the elections of 1876, and was elected deputy . He continued to combat all the republican reforms, but with no
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advantage to his party . He died on the 31st of
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January 1880 . In addition to his journalistic articles he published various
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historical
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works, now unimportant .

His son,

PAUL ADOLPHE
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MARIE PROSPER GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC (1843—1904), while still young was associated with his
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father in both politics and journalism . In 1866 he became editor of the Conservative paper Le Pays, and figured in a long series of political duels . On the declaration of war in 1890 he volunteered for service and was taken prisoner at
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Sedan . On his return from prison in a fortress in
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Silesia he continued to defend the Bonapartist cause in Le Pays, against both Republicans and Royalists . Elected deputy for the department of Gers in 1876, he adopted in the chamber a policy of obstruction "to discredit the republican regime." In 1877 he openly encouraged MacMahon to attempt a Bonapartist coup d'etat, but the marshal's refusal and the
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death of the prince imperial foiled his hopes . He now played but a secondary r6le in the chamber, and occupied himself mostly with the direction of the journal L'Autorite, which he had founded . He was not re-elected in 1902, and died in November 1904 . His sons took over L'Autorite and the belligerent traditions of the
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family .

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