| 词条 | Charles de Morny, Duke of Morny |
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|name=Charles de Morny |image=Duc-de-Morny-02.jpg |birth_date={{birth date|1811|9|15|df=y}} |death_date={{death date and age|1865|3|10|1811|9|15|df=y}} |parents=Charles Joseph de Flahaut Hortense de Beauharnais |spouse=Princess Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya |issue=Marie Eugenie de Morny, Countess of La Corzana Auguste Charles, 2e Duc de Morny Serge de Morny Sophie de Morny |title=Duc de Morny }} Charles Auguste Louis Joseph Demorny de Morny, 1er Duc de Morny {{IPA-fr|ʃaʁl oɡyst lwi ʒɔzɛf dəmɔʁni|}} (15–16 September 1811, Switzerland{{snd}}10 March 1865, Paris) was a French statesman. BiographyMorny was born in Switzerland,{{sfn|Mossiker|1964|pp=361–362}} and was the extra-marital son of Hortense de Beauharnais (the wife of Louis Bonaparte and queen of Holland) and Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut, making him half-brother of Emperor Napoleon III and grandson of Talleyrand. His birth was duly registered in a misleading certificate, which made him the legitimate son of Auguste Jean Hyacinthe Demorny, and born in Paris on 23 October 1811,{{sfn|Le Guide Musical|1865}} and described as a landowner of St. Domingo. M. Demorny was in fact an officer in the Prussian army and a native of St. Domingo, though he owned no land there or elsewhere.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=849}} Morny was educated by his grandmother, Adelaïde Filleul.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} After a brilliant school and college career the future duc de Morny received a commission in the army, and the next year he entered the staff college. The comte de Morny, as he was called by a polite fiction, served in Algeria in 1834–1835 (during the French conquest of Algeria) as aide-de-camp to General Camille Alphonse Trezel, whose life he saved under the walls of Constantine.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=849}} When Morny returned to Paris in 1838, he secured a solid position in the business world by establishing of a major beet-sugar industry at Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne and by writing a pamphlet Sur la question des sucres in 1838. In these and other lucrative speculations he was helped by his mistress Françoise Mosselman, the beautiful and wealthy wife of the Belgian ambassador, Charles Aimé Joseph Le Hon, Comte Le Hon. Eventually there were few great commercial enterprises in Paris in which he did not have an interest.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=849}} Although Morny sat as deputy for Clermont-Ferrand from 1842 onwards, he took at first no important part in party politics, but he was heard with respect on industrial and financial questions. He supported the government of Louis Philippe, because revolution threatened his commercial interests, but before the Revolutions of 1848, by which he was temporarily ruined, he considered converting to the Bourbon legitimist cause represented by the Comte de Chambord. His attitude was expressed by the witticism with which he is said to have replied to a lady who asked what he would do if the Chamber were "swept out." "Range myself on the side of the broom handle," was his answer. Presently he was admitted to the intimate circle of his half-brother Louis Napoleon, and he helped to engineer the coup d'état of 2 December 1851 on the morrow of which he was appointed to head the ministry of the interior.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=849}} After six months in office, during which Morny showed his political opponents moderation and tact, he resigned his portfolio, ostensibly because he disapproved of the confiscation of the Bourbon-Orléans property but really because Napoleon, influenced by Morny's rivals, resented his claim to a foremost place in the government as a member of the Bonaparte family. He then resumed his financial speculations. When in 1854 the Emperor appointed him president of the Corps Législatif, a position which he filled for the rest of his life, he used his official rank to assist his schemes.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=849}} In 1856, Morny was sent as special envoy to the coronation of Alexander II of Russia and brought home a wife, Princess Sophie Troubetzkoi, who through her connections greatly strengthened his social position. Sophie was legally daughter of Prince Sergey Vasilyevich Trubetskoy, but may have been the illegitimate daughter of Nicholas I of Russia. In 1862, Morny was created a Duke. It is said that he aspired to the throne of Mexico, and that the French expedition sent to place Archduke Maximilian on the throne was prompted by Napoleon III's desire to thwart this ambition.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=849}} In spite of occasional disagreements, Morny's influence with the emperor remained great, and the liberal policies which he advocated enabled him to serve the imperial cause through his influence with the leaders of the opposition, the most conspicuous of whom, Émile Ollivier, was detached from his colleagues by Morny's efforts. But while he was laying the foundations of the "Liberal Empire" his health deteriorated and was further injured by quack medicines. The emperor and the empress visited him just before his death in Paris on 10 March 1865.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=849}} Morny's valuable collection of pictures, including Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing, was sold after his death. In spite of his undoubted wit and social gifts, Morny failed to secure the distinction he desired as a dramatist, and none of his pieces, which appeared under the pseudonym of M. de St Rémy, including Sur la grande route, M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . ., and the Les finesses du mari, among others, met with success on the stage.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=849}} Thoroughbred horse racingMorny played an important role in the development of the thoroughbred horse racing and breeding industry in France. In 1860, he purchased the English Triple Crown champion West Australian and brought him to France for breeding purposes. In 1862 Morny built the Deauville-La Touques Race Course near Deauville. The Prix Morny is named in his honour.{{citation needed |date=May 2017}} FamilyHe had married at Saint Petersburg on 7 January 1857, Princess Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya (Moscow, 25 March 1836{{snd}}8 August 1896), the only daughter of Prince Sergey Vasilyevich Trubetskoy (1814{{snd}}12 May (30 April Old Style), 1859) and his wife Ekaterina Petrovna Mussina-Pushkina (1 February 1816{{snd}}c. 1897). Their children included:
Theatrical interestsDe Morny was influential in the early career of Sarah Bernhardt. In her autobiography, My Double Life, Bernhardt recounts that at a family conference which de Morny attended as a family friend, the purpose of which was to determine what Bernhardt was to do with her future life, de Morny suggested that she be sent to the Conservatoire. The family took him up on the suggestion and her life turned to the theatre.[2] Notes1. ^eo:Charles de Morny 2. ^My Double Life, London: Heineman, 1907, p. 52-58 References
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