Albert Rogat
Albert-Armand-Marie Borel-Rogat (5 April 1841 – 26 December 1903) was a French journalist.
Biography
Albert Rogat was born in Paris, the son of Angéline-Marie Cotta and the medalist Émile-Esther Rogat, known as Borel-Rogat (1799–1852). He was a scholarship student at the Lycée Napoléon,[1] where he won a distinction in Latin composition in 1858.[2]
Rogat began his career as a journalist in the final years of the Second Empire. Between 1865[3] and 1870,[4] he wrote the Parisian column for the newspaper Le Nord under the pseudonym "Covielle".[5][6] In 1868, after writing the entire text of a weekly pamphlet, Le Spectateur, which ceased publication after the fourth issue, he joined the editorial staff of Édouard Bauer's L'Événement[7] and also worked for La Patrie.[8]
After the 1870 war, Rogat worked for Le Figaro and then for Le Pays, one of the leading Bonapartist newspapers at the time. Working under the direction of his friend Paul de Cassagnac, he left Le Pays in 1885 out of solidarity with Cassagnac, before joining the staff of L'Autorité, the new paper created by Cassagnac the following year.
Having left L'Autorité in 1888[9] following a dispute with Cassagnac,[10] he wrote a few columns for Gil Blas before taking over as editor of L'Ère nouvelle in Tarbes at the time of the 1889 elections.
In the early 1890s, Rogat began working for the royalist press, contributing to the Moniteur universel and the Correspondance nationale, the Count of Paris's press organ for provincial royalist papers.[11] He also became editor-in-chief of L'Alerte, a newspaper launched on 15 June 1893 at the instigation of Henri of Orléans. Rogat's Bonapartist past caused some misgivings among the sponsors of this new royalist paper, so they decided to add another contributor to Le Moniteur and La Correspondance nationale, Adrien Maggiolo.[12] However, due to a lack of readership and funding, L'Alerte ceased publication in November.[13]
The experience of this failure led Rogat to abandon the monarchist cause. In an article published on the front page of Le Matin on 21 July 1894, entitled "A disillusioned royalist", he announced that he would "unreservedly" join the Republic.[14] He then contributed to the Journal, Gil Blas and La France, for which he wrote several anti-Dreyfus pieces in 1897.
Seriously ill, in autumn 1903 Albert Rogat had to stop working for a republican paper of Berry for which he was the Paris correspondent. Treated at the Hôpital Péan and operated on twice,[15] he died on 26 December at his home at 69 rue des Entrepreneurs.[16] He belonged to the Association of Parisian Journalists.
Notes
- ↑ Bulletin administratif de l'Instruction publique, No. 25 (janvier 1852), p. 8.
- ↑ La Presse (9 août 1858), p. 3.
- ↑ La Presse (6 décembre 1865), p. 2.
- ↑ Le Figaro (23 mars 1870), p. 1.
- ↑ Le Figaro (10 novembre 1867), p. 1.
- ↑ Joliet, Charles (1884). Les pseudonymes du jour. Paris: E. Dentu, p. 51.
- ↑ Le Gaulois (25 novembre 1868), p. 4.
- ↑ Le Figaro (28 novembre 1868), p. 2.
- ↑ Gil Blas (8 juin 1888), p. 2.
- ↑ L'Univers (26 décembre 1903), p. 3.
- ↑ Le Gaulois (17 avril 1891), p. 1.
- ↑ Le Journal (2 mars 1894), p. 2.
- ↑ Le Soleil (24 novembre 1893), p. 1.
- ↑ Le Matin (21 juillet 1894), p. 1.
- ↑ Le Rappel (2 janvier 1904), p. 2.
- ↑ Archives de Paris, état civil du 15e arrondissement, registre des décès de 1903, acte no 4569.
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