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Frédéric and Marie Blanche Passy, c.1855. Frédéric Passy (20 May 1822 – 12 June 1912) was a French economist and pacifist who was a founding member of several peace societies and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He was also an author and politician, sitting in the Chamber of Deputies from 1881 until 1889.
As a prominent economist and politician, Frédéric Passy was involved in many pacifist causes. He founded the first French Peace Society, which held a congress in Paris during the 1878 World Exhibition and also was one of the founding fathers of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, an organization for cooperation between the elected representatives of different countries.
Marie Louise Passy was the daughter of Frédéric Passy and Blanche Sageret. She married Louis André Paulian, the head of the Chamber of Deputies's stenographic bureau. [20] [28] Their daughter, Mathilde Paulian, climbed over the railings of the Eiffel Tower observation deck in February 1912 and fell to her death. [29] [3]: 54–5
Dunant and Passy split the very first Nobel Peace Prize between the two of them. Dunant won for founding the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863. Passy received the honor for founding ...
Frédéric Passy, journalist at Le Temps, led a campaign against this war, as did, for example, Evariste Mangin, director of the Nantes newspaper Le Phare de la Loire. On May 30, 1867, Frédéric Passy founded the International League of Peace and Freedom in Paris.
The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant, who shared a prize of 150,782 Swedish kronor (equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008), and most recently in 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo.
The Allgemeinen Allianz für Ordnung und Zivilisation (Universal Alliance for Order and Civilization) was an organisation formed during the Franco-German War in 1871 by Henri Dunant together with some friends, among them Frédéric Passy.
Frédéric Passy; Hippolyte Passy; Paul Passy This page was last edited on 21 November 2019, at 00:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...