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Français : Biographie de Paul Decauville dans la revue La France Parlementaire PAUL DECAUVILLE [ 74 ] English: In the general election last September, we witnessed a peculiar phenomenon: old MPs and new candidates, who usually care very little about the general aspirations of the country, were this time caught up in a great emulation of the demands of the country. Agriculture and industry, which are ultimately the most important sources of revenue for our budget, raised their voices to voice very legitimate demands, and suddenly the candidates felt that they had new aptitudes, industrial and agricultural aptitudes. Mr X is a farmer, a journalist whose incisive pen and Athenian wit you have admired many times, but who, when it comes to fields, has never known anything other than the couches in the brasserie and the editorial offices on the boulevard. Another farmer is Mr Z..., the brilliant lawyer who has never left the courtroom and who, defending widows and orphans, has earned himself a glittering reputation and a tidy fortune. A farmer, finally, this can-didat general who, believing his crosses, his stripes and a brilliant name to be insufficient to recommend him to the electors of his district, had, for the occasion, simply written the following on his cards: Y., farmer. Far be it from us to criticise these innocent subterfuges, most of which were successful. It's a sign of the times, and those who benefited from it may not forget it. But finally, since it is generally agreed that agricultural issues are on the agenda, it seems to us that if, in the current Parliament, there were a few less fancy farmers and a few more serious farmers, things would not be any worse. It was in obedience to this sentiment that a large group of sena-toriadx electors from the department of Seine-et-Oise came to offer their candidacy to Mr Paul Decauville' and this choice was so unanimously approved, that we believe we can, as of now, understand in our gallery the man who was the object of this distinction. Indeed, if Mr Paul Decauville - Mr. Decauville aîné, to call him what everyone else calls him, - has so quickly become one of the most popular men, thanks to the invention of the Petit Decauville, that Lilliputian railway which, to use the expression of the Marquis d'Andelarre, transports mountains, it is no less true that Mr Paul Decauville is a farmer in the strictest sense of the word, and that in this capacity he has merely continued his family's tradition, which goes back a century and a half. In fact, it was the Decauville family that created Petit-Bourg, and this creation has made this now glorious name one of our most illustrious national names. Mr Paul Decauville is now at the helm of this immense establishment, and it's fair to say that under his leadership the model railway has gone from strength to strength. It is Petit-Bourg that carries the flag of progress in France; it is Petit-Bourg that saw the establishment on its land, in 1867, of the international steam ploughing competition, a competition that laid the foundations for the founding of the Société des Agriculteurs de France. It was Petit-Bourg that proved that progressive, well-understood agriculture is in reality nothing more than an industrial operation in constant search of improvements, and this is so true that it was in constantly seeking these improvements that M. Decauville found the railway, to which he gave his name, now adopted throughout the world, and which has brought one of France's finest inventions to all major industries and crops. The progress of agriculture in France is so much the fixed idea, the dominant cult of the Decauville family that the thought of another career never occurs to the representatives of this family of tireless workers. Each of them wants to be a pioneer of agriculture in France. Mr Decauville, father of Mr Paul Decauville, had studied law; |
Date | ca 1888 |
Source | Biographie de Paul Decauville dans la revue La France Parlementaire par... |
Author | Paul Laverney |
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