René Le Fur

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René Le Fur (at the center) in front of the requisitioned Lycée Janson-de-Sailly (1914)

René-Frédéric Le Fur (12 January 1872 – 23 April 1933), was a French surgeon, urologist and royalist activist from the beginning of the twentieth century.

Biography

René Le Fur was born in Pontivy, the son of attorney Jules-Louis Le Fur, mayor of Pontivy at the end of the 19th century,[1] and brother of the noted jurist Louis Le Fur.

Having obtained a baccalaureate in sciences in Rennes in 1890,[2] René Le Fur joined the class of 1895 of the Internat des Hôpitaux de Paris after having passed the entrance exam in 1894. During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, while he was an intern at the Pitié and an anatomy assistant to Dr. Berger, he was part of an ambulance organized by the Paris branch of the Ottoman Bank.[3] A disciple of Félix Guyon,[4] he specialized in urology. Having obtained his doctorate in July 1901, he practiced surgery for some time at the Péan hospital and then at the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu clinic.[5]

A fervent Catholic, he belonged to the circle of catholic students (or Luxembourg Circle) of the Abbé Fonssagrives,[6] which instituted in 1908, under the patronage of the Institut catholique de Paris, a complementary medical teaching service of which Le Fur became secretary general.[7]

Janson de Sailly Hospital, the officers' floor. Le Fur sitting to the left of nurse major Miss Poirier (1914)

René Le Fur was a supporter of the monarchy. Around 1900, he had replaced Doctor Récamier, ordinary physician of the royal house of France, on the occasion of a long cruise of the Duke of Orleans aboard the yacht Maroussia. Since then, he had become attached to the person and the cause of the Orleanist pretender.[8] A member of the royal house deposed in 1848, the Count of Eu was present at the 1903 wedding of Dr. Le Fur and Marie Nicolay, daughter of the Catholic lawyer and essayist Fernand Nicolaÿ.[9]

An antidreyfusard[10] and an opponent of the anti-clerical policy of the Bloc des gauches (which he described as a "Masonic Bloc"[11]), he founded in 1904 a Catholic league of Orleanist and anti-Masonic orientations, the National agreement for the integral reconstitution of the liberties of France.[12] This activity led to Le Fur being searched in April 1906, like many other right-wing militants suspected of plotting against the regime, in connection with the anarcho-syndicalist leaders of the strikes in the North of France. In 1906, he was a member of the patronage committee of the Institut d'Action Française, presided over by Eugène de Lur-Saluces.[13]

Close to defenders of Breton identity such as Théodore Botrel, Charles Le Goffic, Eugène Le Mouël and the Marquis de L'Estourbeillon, René Le Fur directed Le Breton de Paris from 1908 as well as the work of the Breton Mutuality.[14] Attached to his native province, he owned the Beg-Quilvic estate in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon.

During the World War I, Dr. Le Fur was the chief surgeon of the auxiliary military hospital set up in the premises of the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly. In 1917, he was awarded the medal of honor for epidemics[15] and in 1921, he was named knight of the Legion of Honor.[16] In 1923 and 1924, he was president of the Union of Physicians of the Seine.

René Le Fur died in Paris during the night of April 22-23, 1933. After a funeral in the church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy, attended by the President of France Albert Lebrun, he was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery.[17]

Works

Notes

  1. ↑ La Croix (4 mars 1914), p. 2.
  2. ↑ Meyan, Paul (1891). Annuaire des Diplômés 1890. Paris, p. 271.
  3. ↑ Durand-Fardel, Raymond (1902). L'Internat en médecine et en chirurgie des hôpitaux et hospices civils de Paris: centenaire de l'internat. Paris: Steinheil, p. 279.
  4. ↑ Le Médecin de France, journal officiel bimensuel de la Confédération des syndicats médicaux français (15 mai 1933), p. XXXII.
  5. ↑ Gil Blas (31 janvier 1904), p. 2.
  6. ↑ La Croix (29 septembre 1901), p. 1.
  7. ↑ La Tour du Villard, R. de (5 mars 1910). "Pour les étudiants catholiques," La France illustrée, pp. 164–67.
  8. ↑ Le Figaro (5 janvier 1903), p. 2.
  9. ↑ La Revue mondaine (1903), p. 53.
  10. ↑ In 1906, Le Fur was one of the donors of a subscription launched by the Revue d'Action française for a commemorative medal in honor of General Mercier (L'Action française, revue bimensuelle, 15 octobre 1906, p. 89).
  11. ↑ La Presse (28 avril 1906), pp. 1–2.
  12. ↑ Journal des débats (13 juillet 1904), pp. 2–3.
  13. ↑ L'Action française, revue bimensuelle (15 décembre 1906), p. 3.
  14. ↑ Pastentek (13 juin 1914). "Le Docteur Le Fur," Les Hommes du jour, pp. 7–8.
  15. ↑ La Croix (16 octobre 1917), p. 8.
  16. ↑ Le Rappel (12 mai 1921), p. 2.
  17. ↑ Le Figaro (27 avril 1933), p. 2.

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