Alexandre de Saint-Albin
Alexandre-Denis Huot de Longchamp de Saint-Albin KPO KCSG (13 September 1818 – 31 March 1879) was a French man of letters and civil servant.
Biography
Alexandre de Saint-Albin was born in Sézanne, the son of Alexandre Xavier Huot de Longchamp de Saint-Albin (1777–1853) and Marie Joséphine Dubois de Morambert (1793–1825).
Saint-Albin did not entered journalism until after 1848. Until then he was involved in philosophical work only in a very discreet way. He made his debut at the L'Assemblée nationale, and afterwards published articles in L'Ami de la religion, L'Univers and Le Correspondant.[1]
In 1865, the first arrondissement library, that of the 11th, was opened. One of the most effective architects of its creation was Alexandre de Saint-Albin, who had been employed for over twenty years at the Bibliothèque de la Ville de Paris, where he actively campaigned for the creation of a library in every arrondissement. To reward his initiatives and enable him to make a more useful contribution to the realisation of this programme, the Prefect of Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the post of Inspector of Public Libraries for Town Halls in his favour on 22 November 1866.
In November 1870, Saint-Albin, a victim of political vicissitudes, was removed from this post, which was even abolished after the short-lived appointment of Jules Claretie.
Alexandre de Saint-Albin died in Angers at the age of 60.
A translator of the Song of Roland (1865), he was particularly interested in the history of the papacy, secret societies and the question of divine right. He was also a critic of socialism, particularly the ideas of Père Enfantin.
Private life
He was married (1st marriage) to Marie Joséphine Planque (1818–1855) and they had two children (a son named Emmanuel Alexandre Adrien Marie Joseph and a daughter). He was married for the second time to Jeanne Guillemine Anne de Trenqualye (1829–1861). Together they had a daughter.
Works
- Le courage et la force (1839)
- Le socialisme dans la société élégante et polie (1850)
- De l'Union dans la vérité, à propos du livre de M. Guizot intitulé: "Méditations et études morales" (1852)
- Lettre à M. Athanase Coquerel, l'un des pasteurs de l'Église réformée de Paris, à propos de son sermon du 12 novembre 1854 (1855)
- De l'idolâtrie de la chair: lettre au Père Enfantin à propos de sa prétendue réponse au R. P. Félix (1858)
- L'Europe chrétienne en Orient (1860)
- Quelques pages d'histoire, à propos des droits temporels du pape (1860)
- Les Francs-maçons (1862)
- Madame la duchesse de Parme (1819-1864) (1864)
- Les Portes de l'enfer (1864)
- Le Pape roi de nos âmes (1865)
- Le R. P. Hyacinthe, de l'Immaculée Conception, carme déchaussé (1865)
- Les Francs-Maçons et les sociétés secrètes (1867)
- Du Culte de Satan (1867)
- Les Libres penseuses et la Ligue de l'enseignement (1868)
- La poésie des livres saints: Ancien Testament (1870)
- Du droit divin (1873)
- Le Sacré-Coeur, salut de la France (1873)
- Histoire d'Henri V (1874)
- Histoire de Pie IX et de son pontificat (1878–1879)
Notes
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- ↑ Texier, Edmond (1851). Histoire des journaux: Biographie des journalistes. Paris: Pagnerre, p. 170.
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- 1818 births
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- 19th-century French essayists
- 19th-century French historians
- 19th-century French journalists
- 19th-century French male writers
- 19th-century French translators
- Catholicism and Freemasonry
- French librarians
- French Roman Catholic writers
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great
- Knights of the Order of Pope Pius IX
- People from Sézanne
