Francisque-Joseph Ramey de Sugny

Francisque-Marie-Joseph Ramey, the Count of Sugny (14 September 1825 – 1 July 1908) was a French politician. In February 1871 he was elected to the post-defeat National Assembly where he supported the Legitimist faction. Subsequently, he stood on three successive occasions for election to the Senate (upper house), but without success.[1][2]

Biography

Francisque-Marie-Joseph Ramey was born in the Château de la Bastie d'Urfé at Saint-Étienne-le-Molard, in the Loire department. He came from a political family. His grandfather, Marie-Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ramey de Sugny, had been briefly imprisoned during the Terror, but had survived long enough to be released following the fall of Robespierre.

Francisque-Marie-Joseph Ramey de Sugny was elected to the National Assembly on 8 February 1871, representing his natal department in the legislature. Reflecting the rural traditionalism of his region, he belonged to the catholic monarchist faction in the chamber, backing the restoration of a monarchy and the dismissal of the republican President Thiers, and opposing the Constitutional Laws which established the Third Republic and the Wallon amendment.[1]

He was also Conseiller général of the Canton of Saint-Just-en-Chevalet between 1852 and 1880, and then again between 1887 and 1904.[2] Between 1880 and 1887 the position was held by a republican. His term in the National Assembly ended in 1876 and in the election of 30 January 1876 he was a candidate for the department, but he lost out narrowly to another (moderate) republican, Lucien Arbel. The constitutional crisis of May 1877 triggered another general election. Ramey de Sugny was a candidate again, but again without success. The margin of his defeat at his third attempt to gain election to the Senate, in 1879, was greater still.[1]

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References
  1. "Francisque, Joseph Ramey de Sugny 1825 – 1908". Biographie extraite du dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1789 à 1889 (Adolphe Robert et Gaston Cougny). Le Président de l'Assemblée Nationale. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  2. Alain Garric (compiler). "M M Francisque Joseph RAMEY DE SUGNY". "Essai de Généalogie". Retrieved 13 March 2017.
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