COMTE DE AUGUSTE

See also:

• HILARION, ST (c. 290--371)

HILARION

See also:

• COMTE DE AUGUSTE HILARION KERATRY (1769–1859)

KERATRY (1769–1859)  , French writer and politician, was born at Rennes on the 28th of December 1769 . Coming to Paris in 1790, he associated himself with Bernardin de St Pierre . After being twice imprisoned during the Terror he retired to Brittany, where he devoted him-self to literature till 1814 . In 1818 he returned to Paris as deputy for Finistere, and sat in the Chamber till 1824, becoming one of the recognized liberal leaders . He was re-elected in 1827, took an active part in the establishment of the July monarchy, was appointed a councillor of state (183o), and in 1837 was made a peer of France . After the coup d'etat of 1851 he retired from public life . Among his publications were Conies et Idylles (1791); Lysus et Cydippe, a poem (18o1); Inductions morales et physiologiques (1817); Documents pour servir d l'histoire de France (182o); Du Beau clans les arts d'imitation (1822); Le Dernier des Beaumanoir (1824) . His last work, Clarisse (1854), a novel, was written when he was eighty-five . He died at Port-Marly on the 7th of November 1859 . His son, comte Emile de Keratry (1832– ), became deputy for Finistere in 1869, and strongly supported the war with Germany in 287o . He was in Paris during part of the siege, but escaped in a balloon, and joined Gambetta . In 1871 Thiers appointed him to the prefecture, first of the Haute-Garonne, and subsequently of the Bouches-du-Rhone, but he resigned in the following year .

He is the author of La Contre-guerilla francaise au Mexique (1868) ; L'

Elevation et la chute de l'empereur Maximilien (1867); Le Quatre-septembre et le gouvernement de la defense nationale (1872); Mourad V . (1878), and some volumes of memories .