Gabriel Syveton
| Gabriel Syveton | |
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Gabriel Syveton, 1904
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| Deputy for Seine | |
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In office 21 June 1903 – 8 December 1904 |
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| Born |
Gabriel François Camille Eugène Syveton 21 February 1864 Boën-sur-Lignon, Loire, France |
| Died | 8 December 1904 (aged 40) Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Historian, Politician |
| Known for | Affaire Des Fiches |
Gabriel Syveton (21 February 1864 – 8 December 1904) was a French historian and politician. He was one of the founding members of the patriotic and anti-Dreyfus Ligue de la patrie française. He was elected as deputy for the Seine in 1902. He was involved in scandal when he exposed the existence of a card file compiled from Freemason reports on public officials. It listed practicing Catholics, who should be passed over for promotion. He died, apparently from suicide, the day before being required to appear in court after physically attacking the Minister of War in the Chamber of Deputies.
Gabriel Syveton was born on 21 February 1864 in Boën-sur-Lignon, Loire. He studied in Lyon and then in Paris, and passed his agrégation in history in 1888 as a doctor of letters and associate professor. He taught in turn at the lycées of Aix-en-Provence, Laon, Angoulême and Reims. From 1890 to 1892 the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts assigned him to a study mission in Austria-Hungary. He resigned in 1898 so he could follow a career in politics.
The Ligue de la patrie française originated in 1898 with three young academics, Louis Dausset, Syveton and Henri Vaugeois, who wanted to show that support for Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish artillery officer who had been controversially convicted in 1894 on charges of treason, was not accepted by all university academics. The three circulated a manifesto that stated,
The undersigned, moved by seeing the most disastrous agitation prolonged; persuaded that it cannot last any longer without mortally compromising the vital interests of the French country, and most importantly those gloriously entrusted to the hands of the national army; persuaded also that in saying this we express the opinion of France; we have resolved: to work within the sphere of our professional duties to promote the advancement of the ideas, customs, and traditions of the French fatherland; To unite and gather together, without partisan spirit, to act pragmatically to this end by writing, speech, and example; and to strengthen the spirit of solidarity which has thankfully linked all generations of a great people.
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