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Auguste Callet
1812–1883
A 19th-century French journalist turned politician, he moved between the press, parliament, and exile during some of France’s most turbulent decades. His life connects local journalism in Saint-Étienne with the upheavals of 1848, the Second Empire, and the early Third Republic.
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O Inferno
by Auguste Callet
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Born in Saint-Étienne on October 27, 1812, Pierre Auguste Callet was a French journalist and political figure. Sources describe him as working as a journalist first in Paris and then in Saint-Étienne before entering national politics.
He served as deputy for the Loire from 1848 to 1851 during the Second Republic. After the coup d’état of December 2, 1851, he went into exile in Belgium, a turning point that places his life within the wider political struggles of 19th-century France.
Callet later returned to public life and again represented the Loire from 1871 to 1876. Accounts note that although he was initially favorable to the Republic in the early months of that period, he ultimately sat with the center right. He died on January 8, 1883, in Châtenay-Malabry.