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Arthur Dessoye
Arthur Dessoye
	Arthur Charles Dessoye, Deputy and Minister (1914).
French Deputy
	In office; 1 June 1906 – 7 December 1919
Preceded by	Charles Bourlon de Rouvre
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Parliamentary group	Radical Left
Constituency	Haute-Marne
General Councillor of Haute-Marne
	In office; 1904–1919
Preceded by	Alfred Lamarche
Succeeded by	Emile Telliez
Constituency	Canton of Bourmont
Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
	In office; 9 June 1914 – 13 June 1914
Preceded by	René Viviani
Succeeded by	Jean-Victor Augagneur
Personal details
Born	Arthur Charles Sébastien Dessoye; 23 August 1854; Auberive
Died	30 April 1927 (aged 72); Breuvannes-en-Bassigny
Party	Radical Socialist
Profession	Journalist

Arthur Charles Dessoye (23 August 1854 in Auberive, Haute-Marne – 30 April 1927 in Breuvannes-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne) was a French journalist, writer, industrialist, and politician.

Biography

Born to a tax collector father, originally from Breuvannes-en-Bassigny, where his family owned a file manufacturing business established in 1827,^[1] Arthur Dessoye was one of the founders and editor-in-chief of La Dépêche de Brest et de l'Ouest from 19 November 1886 to 12 April 1897.

Editor of L'Électeur libre de Chaumont until 1884;
Editor-in-chief of L'Union Républicaine du Finistère, a tri-weekly four-page newspaper, from 1 April 1884^[2] until 18 November 1886;
Editor-in-chief of La Dépêche de Brest et de l'Ouest from its creation in 1886 until 1897, succeeding L'Union Républicaine du Finistère.

He married Marie Eugènie Renard in Breuvannes-en-Bassigny on 2 August 1884.^[3] One of his witnesses was his friend Jean Macé.^[1]

Elected general councillor of the Canton of Bourmont from 1904 to 1919, also serving as mayor of Breuvannes^[4]
Elected deputy for Haute-Marne from 1906 to 1919;
President of the Ligue de l'enseignement from 1906 to 1919;
Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts from 9 June to 13 June 1914 in the fourth Government of Alexandre Ribot;
Advocate of electoral reform, he sponsored the law on list voting, enacted on 12 July 1919.^[5]

1 2 "Dessoye, ministre il y a 100 ans" [Dessoye, minister 100 years ago]. blogspot.fr (in French). Retrieved 14 September 2020..
↑ Introduction of A. Dessoye in the 1 April 1884 edition: "Our new editor-in-chief, Mr. Dessoye, who wrote for L'Électeur libre de Chaumont (Haute-Marne), introduces himself to the republicans of Brest under the auspices of Messrs. Jean Macé, Strauss, and Spuller. That says it all. The Committee."
↑ http://actes52.fr/tab_mari.php?args=Breuvannes,DESSOYE&xord=N
↑ "Reports and minutes of Council sessions". bnf.fr. Retrieved 2 June 2023..
↑ Herfort, Paul (15 November 1919). "Le système électoral dans les principaux pays du monde" [The electoral system in major countries]. Le Pays de France (in French). 265: 6–7.
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