M de Baudry d Asson
Also known as: M de Baudry d Asson, Baudry d'Asson, Asson, M. de Baudry d'Asson
Overview
Armand Léon de Baudry d'Asson (Rocheservière, 15 June 1836 – 12 May 1915), Legitimist deputy for the Vendée from 1876 to 1914, a horse breeder and the Chamber's best-known hothead of the Right (Wikipedia, «Armand Léon de Baudry d'Asson», https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_L%C3%A9on_de_Baudry_d%27Asson). Mon Journal indexes: t.13 «Baudry d'Asson (M.) : 130» and t.11 «Baudry d'Asson (Léon-Armand-Charles) : 281». In November 1880 he was sanctioned under article 124 of the Chamber's rules after refusing to obey (Journal du Lot, 13 November 1880 report of the session of 9 November), the scene Marie's footnote compares to the removal of the deputy Manuel in 1823.
Relevance to Marie
- 3 December 1879. Marie follows the Chamber in the newspaper and mocks his speech: «M. de Baudry d'Asson, le fils des géants, le Vendéen, le grand chasseur devant le Seigneur, monte à la tribune et commence: "Dans les circonstances actuelles et ne voulant pas faire le jeu d'un ministère aux abois... M. le Président." M. Baudry d'Asson, je vous engage à employer un style moins cynégétique» (086.0618).
- 14 November 1880. After the sitting: the deputy «a fait son Manuel» (090.0219, reader footnote).
References in Diary
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