Cours Victor Leydet

Victor Leydet éwas an industrialist from Aix who became sénateur of Bouches-du-Rhône in 1897 and remained so until his death. From 1865, under the Empire, he was only twenty years old but, as a convinced publican, he supported the candidacy of Jules Favre as deputy of Paris in the elections of 1869. Leydet wrote in several regional newspapers of Provence, among which the National d'Aix, the creation of which he participated. In 1874, he became the district councilor of the southern canton of Aix. He remained so until 1880. During the second period (1875-1881), he was first deputy mayor of Aix-en-Provence. In addition to his election to the position of general councillor of Peyrolles in 1880, he became deputy the following year. He was re-elected in 1885, 1889 and 1893. He finally became Senator in 1897. He had the principle of pensions for workers adopted and fought for the passage of railway lines in the Aix region, such as the La Calade-Salon line. For the city of Aix, he obtained the creation of a match factory, as well as a tribunal of prudhommes. in the autumn of 1908, while attending the obsessions of an old companion in Septèmes, he caught a cold because of the strong mistral wind. in Paris, eight days later, he succumbs to a heart attack. His body is repatriated to Aix where he receives sumptuous obsessions.

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