Castagnary, Jules |
| ART CRITIC, POLITICIAN (FRANCE) |
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BORN 11 Apr 1831, Saintes, Charente-Maritime - DIED 11 May 1888, Paris GRAVE LOCATION Paris: Cimetière de Montmartre, 20 Avenue Rachel (division 18, ligne 01, numéro 12 (under the road)) |
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Jules Castagnary wrote for "Le Monde Illustré" and "Le Siècle". He reviewed the art salons in Paris from 1857 to 1879. On 29 April 1874 he wrote a favourable article on the impressionists for "Le Siécle". During the siege of Paris in 1870-1871 he organised provincial republican press. After the war he started a career as a politician and in 1874 he entered the municipal council of Paris as an anti-clerical republican. In 1881 he became a minister in the Gambetta cabinet in 1881 but it fell in 1882. He was appointed director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1887. His biography of Courbet was unfinished when he died in 1888. |
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 The grave of Jules Castagnary at the Cimetière Montmartre, Paris. Picture by Androom (20 Feb 2016) |
