Pierre Joigneaux

Pierre Joigneaux
French Senator
In office
4 January, 1891 – 26 January, 1892
ConstituencyCôte-d'Or
French Deputy
In office
8 February, 1871 – 11 November, 1889
ConstituencyCôte-d'Or
In office
4 May, 1848 – 2 December, 1851
ConstituencyCôte-d'Or
General Councilor of Côte-d'Or
In office
1870–1882
Preceded byGérard Chauvelot-Girard
Succeeded byHenri Welter
ConstituencyBeaune
Personal details
Born23 December 1815
Died26 January 1892 (76)
PartyFar Left (1871-1876), Republican Union (1876-1889)
ProfessionPolitician

Pierre Joigneaux (23 December 1815 in Ruffey-lès-Beaune – 26 January 1892 in Asnières) was a French journalist and politician of the far-left.

Early life

Joigneaux studied at the Central School of Paris and entered into the democratic presse at the age of 25.

A collaborator of the Journal du Peuple, the Corsaire, the Charvari, and Feuille du Village[1] he put up a strong opposition to the government of Louis Philippe d'Orleans, and was condemned in 1838 to 4 years in prison for articles published in The Free Man, a republican journal printed in secret.

During this time he published another journal, Les Prisons de Paris.[2]

In Beaune, 1843, he published the journal, Chronique de Bourgogne then La Sentinelle beaunoise[3] in 1845. In Dijon he published: le Courrier de la Côte d'Or[4], with others including Mathieu de la Drôme, le Vigneron des Deux-Bourgognes[5] and la Revue Industrielle et agricole de la Bourgogne.[6]

He continued publishing various journals, both republican and otherwise, mostly agronomy until the Springtime of the people.

Political career

His political life began in 1848, he was named vice commissioner of the Republic in the arrondissements of Châtillon-sur-Seine. He was elected representative of the people at the constituant assembly, where he sat on the far left. He was considered as a candidate for president in 1852.

As a republican, he was opposed to the coup of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and subsequently exiled to Saint-Hubert, Belgium, where he became friends with Alexandre Dumas. He continued his studies of agronomy and publishes various works in Brussels. He did not return to France until 1859.

Deputised in 1871, he was consistently reëlected. In May 1877, he was a signatory of the Manifesto of the 363[7]. He then became general councillor of the Canton of Southern Beaune and later a senator of Côte-d'Or.

Publications

Joigneaux published many considerable works. Outside of periodical publications which he drafted and directed and many articles published in various journals, his full list of works is as follows:

Memorial to Pierre Joigneaux in Balbi Park at Versailles.
  • Fragments historiques sur la ville de Beaune et ses environs (1839) ;
  • Les Prisons de Paris, par un ancien détenu (1842) ;
  • Histoire anecdotique des professions en France (1843) ;
  • Histoire des paysans sous la royauté (1850) ;
  • La Chimie du cultivateur ;
  • Lettres aux paysans ;
  • Lettre trouvée à la porte d’une caserne ;
  • Le Dictionnaire d’agriculture pratique, in collaboration with Charles Moreau (1854) ;
  • Engrais et Amendements ;
  • Instructions agricoles ;
  • Les Arbres fruitiers (1860) ;
  • Le Livre de la ferme et des maisons de campagne (1862) ;
  • Conférences sur le jardinage et les arbres fruitiers (1870) ;
  • Culture de la vigne en Belgique ;
  • Petite École d’agriculture (1875) ;
  • L’Art de produire de bonnes graines ;
  • In 1891, he published the Souvenirs historiques. His archives are conserved at the municipal archives of Beaune where they were donated by his descendants in 2020.
Memorial inscription.

References

  1. ↑ Weill, Georges (1900). Histoire du parti Républicain en France de 1814 à 1870 [History of the Republican Party in France from 1814 to 1870] (in French). 108 Boulevard des Saint Germaine. p. 347. ISBN 9781021507846. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ↑ Joigneaux, Pierre (1815-1892) Auteur du texte (1841). Les prisons de Paris, par un ancien détenu [P. Joigneaux].{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "La Sentinelle beaunoise : revue mensuelle, paraissant le 15 de chaque mois". Gallica. December 15, 1845. Retrieved May 10, 2026.
  4. ↑ "RetroNews.fr - Le site de presse de la BnF". www.retronews.fr. Retrieved May 10, 2026.
  5. ↑ Le vigneron des Deux Bourgognes, journal de viticulture et d'oenologie / [Pierre Joigneaux, Chantrier, Bourgeois, Meline... [et al.]. Blondeau-Dejussieu. Beaune. 1848.
  6. ↑ "Revue agricole et industrielle". archives39.fr (in French). Retrieved May 10, 2026.
  7. ↑ Fiche sycomore