page_title: Gustave Cunéo d'Ornano
section_title: Journalist
hierarchical_section_title: Gustave Cunéo d'Ornano / Journalist
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover page of Le peuple et l'empereur by Cunéo d'Ornano
context_page_description: Gustave Cunéo d'Ornano was a French lawyer, journalist and politician who was a Bonapartist deputy for the department of Charente for thirty years. He represented the rural constituency of Cognac, and often supported the distillers in parliament. Although he supported democracy, he was in favour of plebiscites and opposed the republicans of the French Third Republic for most of his career. He took every opportunity to speak out against the government in the chamber of deputies. At one point an article he had written led to a duel with another deputy.
context_section_description: In 1872 Cuneo d'Ornano became one of the editors of the Courrier de France. From 1873 to 1874 he edited the Charentais in Angoulême. After contributing to la Presse for a short period, he returned to Charente and founded a Bonapartist newspaper, the Suffrage universel des Charentes, and became known for his extremely lively polemics. In 1876, in Bassac, Charente, he married Marie-Léontine-Claire-Sara Plantevigne-Dubosquet. They had one son, born in 1883, who was held on the baptismal font by Victor, Prince Napoléon.
caption: Cover of Le peuple et l'empereur Cunéo (1875)
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