Albert Alexander Martin (1815-1895), known as "Albert the Worker", farmer's son became a mechanic, he joined the July Monarchy under various ; secret societies, before founding with other workers newspaper L'Atelier . Daniel Stern (pseud. of Countess Marie d'Agoult) " the appointment of a or February at provisional government is an historical fact which must not ignore the meaning and character. It is a sign of emancipation, still blind, but now assured of the working class, it marks the time of passage of the political revolution to social revolution. " ( History of the Revolution of 1848 , vol. 1, 1851).
"The Tuileries taken, the king gone, Reform and The National felt the need for immediate reconciliation. There was no time to lose in vain quarrels. The House could recovering from his stupor. The people themselves would not wait long as we offered him a government. [...] The hatred ran high between these two newspapers. The competition authority does not seem likely to bring them feelings of reconciliation. From both sides had formed a committee at all times. For several hours, these two committees rivals recruited notables of their faction. In National stood MM. Emmanuel Arago, Marrast, Martin (Strasbourg), Sarrans, Dorn, Recurt, Vaulabelle, etc.. A Reform MM. Beaune, Snowflake, Gervais (Caen), Cahaignes, and twenty others discussed without reaching a conclusion. [...] On both sides, we compiled lists of provisional government. But if it were possible to meet a few illustrations that deserves a special and extra-political glory placed in a sort of neutrality, it was not so for others. We accept Mr. Lamartine as a poet, as an astronomer Arago, Dupont (de l'Eure) as an honest man and as an octogenarian. But Mr. Marrast would not hear of M. Ledru-Rollin. Mr. Flake was Mr. Garnier-Pages in horror, and M. Marie shuddered at the idea of sharing power with the Communist Louis Blanc. [...]
Failure brought to hear simply a sharing of power. It was a fatal conclusion inevitable. This resulted later in the provisional government of inhomogeneity, which became the Republic for the second source of many evils. The country is still bleeding and in tears will flow in a long time! [...]
We finally managed to agree on a list as follows: "Dupont (de l'Eure), Francois Arago, Ledru-Rollin, Snowflake, Marie, Armand Marrast, Cremieux, Garnier-Pagès Lamartine, Louis Blanc. " The latter immediately went to read the list of fighters in the crowd who thronged the courtyard. Hoarse cheers greeted him. Why do they applauded? Probably because applaud need is a mass, pruritus which expresses the palms of the hands of the man many once-self a man stands in front of him and speaks. This eclectic list certainly does not deserve the approval of the people. Science, talent and virtue were assembled. It lacked unity. The incompetence of this government would result powerless mixture of names so differently nuanced. It looked too much like a dismemberment of power ambitions side. We did not feel the person who had the nerve of a Cromwell or Robespierre, who had to absorb the individualities below and print the Government of the Republic a strong pulse.
fighters were pressed into the court may be a vague perception of what the prey sharing government because the thought of them assign their share came to mind. This required that one of them was promoted to the rank of future dictators. Reading the list was completed just a name flew from mouth to mouth "Albert" Albert! " we cried. When this name came into the hall of writing, where there were many workers, the cry of "Cheers Albert!" sounds and dedicated his appointment. One worker was take the government of a first nation in the world.
Mr. Albert was he one of those unknown geniuses that revolutions are suddenly out of the crowd? In any way. Mechanic, also belonging to a wealthy family, Mr. Albert was distinguished by any of those high and rare qualities that designate a man of government functions. His fame did not extend beyond the regions in which flowed his life. Long been affiliated with the secret societies, he had participated in the last days of the reign of Louis Philippe, at the direction of the Seasons. We hasten adding that Mr. Albert was respected by all because of the purity of his character, his bravery, his devotion to the republican cause. We need these noble qualities have been well with him so that no compelling secret agents who have infected the press has dared touch disgusting slander that simple and honest face.
Regrettably, the Democratic point of view, that Mr. Albert had not been gifted with eminent faculties. He would have given his appointment reaching it was not true. Considered in good faith, the appointment of Mr. Albert to the Provisional Government of the French Republic attests rather the power of secret societies, which will be determined from the people to govern themselves and to achieve a more rigorous, more accurate authority. The workers of the secret societies is a man outcast. It is becoming reality at work and he belongs in politics. The appointment of Mr. Albert, in court and in the offices of The Reformation by a crowd of men whom he had ordered in sections, has no meaning other than the tribute to a good leader by his soldiers. For this election had assumed the character of the men advanced party sought to give him he would have had, instead of Mr. Albert, see arise about worker well known, designated by the general acclamation of the legions of work, or rather a kind of public sentiment. There was none of that.
The appointment of Mr. Albert was therefore more like a compliment at the people, an act of the will of the people themselves. Let this be a sign significant in the history of a nation, although it is permissible to raise the importance, not without exaggeration, give it a character of social reform. After so many follies perpetrated in the sun, who has maintained democratic convictions, was ordered, on pain of eternal death, to file the last of his illusions. Mr. Albert also justified the reservations recorded history today by inaction and an absolute erasure. Paris wondered how long this was Albert, laborer, in which the humble artisan and thinker founded a secret hope. The craftsman said that the benefits of power went down in the form of generous laws, even in his humble abode. The thinker foresaw the dawn of a great evolution of the human mind, the last part of the classifications broken, the birth of a collective venture, what do I know? Virtue, merit staff, free from any interference and becoming the true, the only distinction between men. Some disciple of Emerson saw perhaps the dawn of the Government of heroes. The name of Mr. Albert was a great decoy. "
Hyppolite Castile History of the Second Republic in France ,
vol 1, Paris, Victor Lecou ed., 1854.
vol 1, Paris, Victor Lecou ed., 1854.
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" ALBERT CITIZENS, WORKERS (without portfolio),
(This is a Mountaineer speaking to a Conservative.)
When I tell you that Albert is skilled worker
What art? How about a mid-air sardonic
What I do want to qualify.
Learn the art today is more than a job
We base a Republic
Where should prevail only talents, virtues,
And it is only in the shop,
Among these men bare arms, these Romans
That is, new Cincinnatus
Leaving the shop or leaving their cottages
To dethrone kings and punish tyrants
Or, if necessary, leaving the back rows,
Bayonets intelligent
Who do not need to age in the slow
To be as good leaders and intrepid warriors;
Then, returning to their humble homes, there are
their wives and daughters,
Spinning flax, smoothing their clothes coarse
And taking all their hot soup with lentils.
Ah! you think, rich bourgeois and corrupt
Modern Lucullus, Crassus, Apicius,
Braving the frugal Mountain Headquarters
great and noble hearts,
You think, what people skilled explorers
You always drink his sweat
Where you seem to find the bouquet Champagne,
Without ever you drink!
But the time has come to regenerate.
That in turn to do a little greasy.
Give him some space by paying his bill, forgetting
that bread alone is something stale, it
waited quite the fat boiled chicken
And never drinks to bumper.
Otherwise, the triangle steel
could soon resume its motion, regenerative machine
Who sleeps great since the end of last century
And eventually rust.
I hear the word is hard and makes you frown.
you saying the people obstruct justice?
When one builds a new one on an old building,
Should we not first demolish it?
It is the art of modern builders.
Hear them scream already with courage
Brothers, friends, let's get to work.
demolish, demolish. To rebuild after
, we lack an architect?
Well! Albert is here: suffice.
His strength is not at least suspect.
What need is there to study and mind,
To know even what he said?
When we know, the bare arms, if necessary, to the armpit,
Manier hammer, saw or trowel,
What Conservative insolent
Regretting the monarchical state, although it
Dare
deny the talent to govern the Republic? "
Charles-Louis Rey (pseud. Geronte Cadet) various Poems,
Nimes, at major booksellers, 1852.
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