1. Adrien Barnabe Athanase Recurt was a French medical doctor who became a representative in the Constituent Assembly of the French Second Republic, Minister of the Interior and then Minister of Public Works.
13 Facts About Adrien Recurt
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Adrien Recurt studied medicine and qualified as a doctor in Montpellier in 1822.
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Adrien Recurt moved to Paris in the last years of the Restoration, and established himself as a doctor in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
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Adrien Recurt threw himself into the struggles of the liberal cause, aligned himself with the Charbonnerie and was involved in various plots.
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Adrien Recurt was implicated in the affair of April 1834 but was acquitted by the court of peers.
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Adrien Recurt was appointed Minister of the Interior on 11 May 1848.
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Adrien Recurt submitted a double bill to the Assembly prohibiting any armed meeting or association, and extending the ban from French territory to Louis Philippe and his family.
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In June 1848 Adrien Recurt contributed to the repression of the riots, and personally helped the attack on the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
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Adrien Recurt resigned this position on 15 October 1848 and on 25 October 1848 was appointed prefect of the Seine.
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Adrien Recurt resigned from this office after the election as President of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and from then on played an insignificant role in the Assembly.
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Adrien Recurt was not reelected to the Legislative Assembly, and returned to his profession as a doctor.
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Adrien Recurt retired to the south of France shortly before his death.
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Adrien Recurt died in Levignac, Haute-Garonne, on 7 November 1872.