Voting Station

Frederic Passy

Please vote to return to collections.

Advocate

The Resume

    (May 20, 1822-June 12, 1912)
    Born in Paris, France
    Economist and pacifist
    Member of the Chamber of Deputies (1881-89)
    Founding member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (1889)
    Co-recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901)

Why he might be annoying:

    His widowed father married his wife’s widowed mother, making his mother-in-law his stepmother.
    The first peace society he founded, the International and Permanent League of Peace, collapsed when the Franco-Prussian War broke out (1870).
    At a peace conference held during the 1878 Paris Exposition, he opposed a resolution stating that war ‘aggravates the condition of the most numerous and poorest classes‘ on the grounds that there is no class system in a republic.
    Although he accepted his share of the Nobel Peace Prize, he left an essay to be published posthumously criticizing the Prize by arguing that it would attract people interested in the monetary award rather than genuine pacifists.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was unable to secure a full-time teaching job because he refused to swear an oath of loyalty to Emperor Napoleon III.
    His pleas for peace in the journal ‘Le Temps’ were credited with helping to avert a war between France and Prussia over Luxembourg (1867).
    He convinced France and the Netherlands to settle a dispute over the boundary between French Guiana and Surinam through arbitration (1881).
    He said, ‘The world is made of achieved utopias. Today’s utopia is tomorrow’s reality.’

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying