Antonin Proust

Template:Short description Antonin Proust (15 March 1832Template:Snd20 March 1905) was a French journalist and politician.

Antonin Proust was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres. In the 1840s, Proust attended the Collège Rollin where he met lifelong friend Édouard Manet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In September 1850, Proust and Manet joined the studio of Thomas Couture for artistic training.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1864, Proust founded an anti-imperial journal, La Semaine hebdomadaire which appeared in Brussels. He was war correspondent for Le Temps in the early days of the Franco-Prussian War, but after the Battle of Sedan (1870) he returned to Paris, where he became secretary to Léon Gambetta and superintended the refugees in Paris.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |

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He entered the Chamber of Deputies as representative for his native town in 1876, taking his seat on the left. In Gambetta's cabinet (1881–1882) he was minister of the fine arts, and in the Chamber of Deputies] he was regularly commissioned to draw up the budget for the fine arts, after the separate department had ceased to exist. Prosecuted in connection with the Panama scandals, he was acquitted in 1893. From this time he lived in the closest retirement. On 20 March 1905 he shot himself in the head, dying of the wound two days later.<ref name="EB1911"/>

He was not related to Marcel Proust, the famous writer.<ref>8-8-2002 Specularity in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Art, Marguerite Li, Bassi University of New Orleans.</ref>

• Auguste Rodin Antonin Proust.jpg

  Portrait by Auguste Rodin.

• Anders Zorn Antonin Proust.jpg

  Portrait by Anders Zorn.

• Édouard Manet - Antonin Proust - Google Art Project.jpg

  Portrait by Édouard Manet.