Jules Armand Dufaure

Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure ( born December 4, 1798 in Saujon, Saintonge, † June 27, 1881 in Rueil -Malmaison, Hauts -de -Seine département ) was a French lawyer, politician and twice Prime Minister.

Career

After studying law Dufaure be settled as a lawyer in Bordeaux and was elected there as a member of the Liberal Party in the Chamber of Deputies. In the cabinet of Marshal Nicolas- Jean de Dieu Soult in 1839 he was Minister of Public Works and later in the office of General Louis -Eugène Cavaignacs June-December 1848 and June to October 1849 Minister of the Interior of France. During the Second Empire under Napoleon III. Simon retired from political life back, became friends with Adolphe Thiers and carried as a moderate leader of the Left Centre since 1871 to consolidate the young Third Republic at.

Prime minister

In March 1876 Dufaure of President Patrice de Mac -Mahon was appointed prime minister. However, the formed by it " Gouvernement de trêve " possessed in the Chamber of Deputies no stable majority so that Dufaure resigned in December 1876. A year later he was again asked to form a government after the dismissal of the Prime Minister Gaëtan de Grimaudet de Rochebouët of President MacMahon in December 1877.

Dufaure contributed by his modest and careful government policy significantly to enforce the parliamentary system, which seemed to him most of the Constitution to match. Following the resignation of the President also Dufaure resigned on January 30, 1879. The new prime minister was William Henry Waddington.

Awards

For his services to the French Republic, he was a member of the Académie française in 1863 and where he became the successor of the politician Étienne- Denis Pasquier a third chair ( armchair ) of the forty seats.

Sources and further reading

  • Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
  • Gondrom World History in Pictures, Volume 21, Bayreuth 1982
  • Prime Minister (France)
  • Minister of the Interior (France)
  • Senator (France)
  • Member of the Académie française
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1798
  • Died in 1881
  • Man
  • Member of the National Assembly ( French Second Republic)
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