Louis de Carné
Louis-Marie de Carné (17 February 1804 in Quimper, Finistère – 11 February 1876 in Plomelin), comte de Carné was a French politician, journalist and historian.
Also recorded as Louis de Carne
Louis de Carné

Victor Frond, Panthéon des illustrations françaises au XIXe siècle, Paris, Pilon, s.d. (vers 1865). · Public domain
- Born
- 1804 · Quimper.
- Died
- 1876 · Château de Pérennou.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- journalist · historian · writer · diplomat · politician
- Education
- Paris Law Faculty
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Louis-Marie de Carné (17 February 1804 in Quimper, Finistère – 11 February 1876 in Plomelin), comte de Carné was a French politician, journalist and historian.
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Louis de Carné studied at Paris Law Faculty. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Positions recorded include president and seat 12 of the Académie française. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Founder of the newspaper le Correspondant in 1829, conseiller général for Finistère, député from 1839 to 1846, he was also a contributor to the Journal des débats and the Revue des deux mondes as well as one of the founders of the Société d'économie charitable and of the Société internationale des études pratiques d'économie sociale. Supported by the opponents of the Second French Empire (Montalembert, Dupanloup, Guizot), he was elected to the Académie française on 24 April 1863, on the third scrutiny, against Émile Littré. He was president of the Société archéologique du Finistère until his death.
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• Vues sur l'histoire contemporaine (1833) • Guiscriff, scènes de la Terreur dans une paroisse bretonne, précédé d'une notice historique sur la chouannerie (1835) • Des Intérêts nouveaux en Europe depuis la révolution de 1830 (1838) • Du Gouvernement représentatif en France et en Angleterre (1841) • Études sur les fondateurs de l'unité nationale en France (1842) • Études sur l'histoire du gouvernement représentatif en France, de 1789 à 1848 (1855) • Les Fondateurs de l'unité française: Suger, saint Louis, Duguesclin, Jeanne d'Arc, Louis XI, Henri IV, Richelieu, Mazarin. Études historiques (1856) • La Monarchie française au dix-huitième siècle, étude historiques sur les règnes de Louis XIV et de Louis XV (1859) • L'Europe et le second Empire (1865) • Les États de Bretagne et l'administration de cette province jusqu'en 1789 (1868) - Son ouvrage fondamental [...] toujours apprécié aujourd'hui • Souvenirs de ma jeunesse au temps de la Restauration (1872).
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Quimper.
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Château de Pérennou.
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- 1.Louis de Carné. Souvenirs de ma jeunesse au temps de la Restauration, 1872
- 2.Jean-Yves Guiomar. Le bretonisme : les historiens bretons au . Rennes : SHAB, 1987.
- 3.Les Noms qui ont fait l'histoire de Bretagne, Coop Breizh et Institut culturel de Bretagne, 1997, .
- 4.Voyage en Indo-Chine et dans l'empire chinois, Éd. originale, Paris, E. Dentu, 1872 ; réimpression : Genève, Olizane, 2003, 444 p. .
- 5.Son ouvrage fondamental [...] toujours apprécié aujourd'hui (cf. Les Noms qui ont fait l'histoire de Bretagne, Coop Breizh et Institut culturel de Bretagne, 1997, .)
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- René Kerviler, Dictionnaire bio-bibliographique breton. T. IV, .
- Finistère : dictionnaire biographique illustré, Flammarion et Wagner, 1912.
- Audran, Notice nécrologique, in : Bulletin de la Société archéologique du Finistère, T. III, 1876.
- En Bretagne, au moins six rues portent son nom (Louis-Marie de Carné-Marcein), d'après Les Noms qui ont fait l'histoire de Bretagne, 1997.
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