Jules de Polignac

Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac ( born May 14, 1780 in Versailles, † March 29, 1847 in Paris) was a French diplomat and briefly Prime Minister of France.

Life

Jules de Polignac emigrated 1790. His father left him and his brothers swear always to fight the revolution. With his brother Armand de Polignac in 1804 he took part in the conspiracy Georges Cadoudals. Armand was sentenced to death, but Jules gave his life for his brother. But both he and his brother of Empress Joséphine were pardoned. They sat until 1814 captured and then fled to the then Count of Artois, later King Charles X, who sent ahead with full powers to Paris.

With Louis XVIII. he moved to Ghent in 1815, returned with him, was appointed Deputies, 1816 proved to be an opponent of the Charter Constitutionnelle, Pair was and was a member of the court martial, the François Antoine Lallemand condemned. 1820 made ​​him the Pope of the Roman princely rank, in 1823 he went as ambassador to England. After Canning's death, he joined here in Wellington and its system. He was transferred in the spirit of the Ultras, which he was president since November 1829 on August 8, 1829, the establishment of a Ministry. But through his measures he crashed in France a new revolution and brought the House of Bourbon to the throne.

Polignac was during the July Revolution in Paris, and had, as you on the 27th stormed his ministry and destroyed, saved in the Tuileries, but rejected all negotiation proposals. Only when the people got ready to attack the Tuileries, he retired to Saint -Cloud back to the king. But since he does not certainly in the wake of felt, he fled towards the northern coast of France to embark here to England. But in Normandy, he was recognized at Granville in the disguise of a servant, was arrested and taken to Vincennes. There already Peyronnet, Chantelauze and Guernon - Ranville were. These four were brought before the court Pair, which sentenced the end of December Polignac to the loss of his offices and titles, life imprisonment and the loss of his civil rights.

He was taken to Hamburg, where he remained until 1838. Pardoned by the king Louis -Philippe, he lived since then in England, the homeland of his two wives, Barbara Campbell (since 1819) and Marie Charlotte Parkyns, daughter of Lord Rancliffe, and in Munich. In 1843 he went to Paris in family matters, but had to leave within 24 hours of the city. During his imprisonment he wrote the 1832 book published in Paris Considérations politiques sur l' époque actuelle.

Works

• Considérations politiques sur l' époque actuelle, 1832 (online) Google Books ( French)
• Études historiques, politiques et morales, 1845 (online) Google Books ( French)