Alexandre Baréty
Alexandre Baréty was a French physician. He was the author of many medical papers. With Henri Sappia, he co-founded the Acadèmia Nissarda, a historical society in Nice, in 1904.
Biography
Born into a family from Guillaumes, he pursued a brilliant secondary education in Nice before starting medical studies in Paris. The first Niçois to be accepted as a Paris hospital intern in 1869, he defended his thesis in 1874, winning a silver medal from the Paris Faculty of Medicine and the Prix Châteauvillard. The Franco-Prussian War his internship, and he became an aide-major at the Couvent des Récollets de Paris during the Siege of Paris (1870–1871).He then returned to Nice to become a renowned practitioner. He was a Nice city councilor from 1878 to 1881, general councilor of Alpes-Maritimes from 1880 to 1904, then for a time mayor of Puget-Théniers.
He takes over from Henri Sappia as editor of the magazine Nice historique. He was the founder and first president of the Acadèmia Nissarda in 1904. An art lover, he published a number of historical and archaeological articles; he was also interested in Animal magnetism. He commissioned architect Lucien Barbet to build the Palais Baréty between 1897 and 1898.
The right pretracheal space,, bears its name: Loge de Baréty.
He was the father of Third Republic MP Léon Baréty and the grandfather of French Fifth Republic MP and Mayor of Nice Jean-Paul Baréty.
Alexandre Baréty was buried in the Cimiez cemetery.