Antonin Proust, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antonin Proust

French journalist and politician

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1832

Place of Birth: Niort, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 20-Mar-1905

Profession: politician, art historian, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Antonin Proust (15 March 1832 – 20 March 1905) was a French journalist and politician. Antonin Proust was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres.
In 1864 he founded an anti-imperial journal, La Semaine hebdomadaire which appeared in Brussels.
He was war correspondent for Le Temps in the early days of the Franco-German War, but after the Battle of Sedan (1870) he returned to Paris, where he became secretary to Léon Gambetta and superintended the refugees in Paris.He entered the Chamber of Deputies as representative for his native town in 1876, taking his seat on the left.
In Gambetta's cabinet (1881–1882) he was minister of the fine arts, and in the Chamber of Deputies] he was regularly commissioned to draw up the budget for the fine arts, after the separate department had ceased to exist.
Prosecuted in connection with the Panama scandals, he was acquitted in 1893.
From this time he lived in the closest retirement.
On 20 March 1905 he shot himself in the head, dying of the wound two days later.He was not related to Marcel Proust, the famous writer.



Alternative names	Edouard Manet; Manet
Description	French painter, illustrator and lithographer
Date of birth/death	23 January 1832	30 April 1883
Location of birth/death	Paris	8th arrondissement of Paris
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q40599 VIAF: 97379936 ISNI: 0000 0001 2144 651X ULAN: 500010363 LCCN: n79043160 NLA: 35961447 WorldCat