18 Facts About Henry Aron

Henry Aron was a French journalist and political essayist.

Henry Aron wrote for several prominent Parisian journals and was director of the Journal officiel de la Republique francaise from 1876 until 1881.

Henry Aron served in the government of Leon Gambetta, France's 45th Prime Minister.

Henry Aron was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1878.

Henry Aron, the maternal uncle of the historian Henri Hauser, was born in Besancon to a middle-class Jewish family of republican sympathies.

Henry Aron's father, Charles Aron, was a merchant and exporter.

Henry Aron began his education at the Lycee Charlemagne in Paris.

Henry Aron went on to the Ecole Normale Superieure and obtained a fellowship there in 1865, but gave up teaching to pursue a career in journalism, initially writing for the Journal des Debats and the Revue politique et litteraire.

Henry Aron later became the secretary of the Revue des Deux Mondes.

Henry Aron left his post on the resignation of the government in May 1877 but resumed it in October upon the reelection of a Republican majority.

Henry Aron became one of the founding council members of the Societe des Etudes Juives in 1880.

Henry Aron resigned his post at the Journal officiel in 1881 when it came under state control and then served in the government of Leon Gambetta as Director of Political Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1881 to 1882.

Henry Aron figured several times in the antisemitic tracts of Edouard Drumont, his old classmate at Lycee Charlemagne, who deeply resented Henry Aron's success.

In La France juive in which Drumont attacked the role of Jews in French society and argued for their exclusion, he accused Henry Aron of firing him from a minor position at the Journal officiel because he was a Christian.

Henry Aron died of tuberculosis in Paris at the age of 43 and was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery on 15 November 1885.

Henry Aron's funeral was conducted by the Chief Rabbi of Paris, Zadoc Kahn, with the eulogy given by Tony Baugier, the director of the Journal officiel at the time.

Henry Aron had married Pauline Veil-Picard, the daughter of a wealthy banker in Besancon, on 26 May 1879.

Henry Aron was later adopted by Pauline's third husband, Xavier-Gustave-Edouard, comte de Faucompre.