Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet
Marthe Camille Bachasson, comte de Montalivet, ( born April 24, 1801 in Valence, † January 4, 1880 at the Château de Lagrange in Saint- Bouize, Cher ), was a French statesman.
Bachasson Montalivet was the son of the politician Jean -Pierre Bachasson Montalivet, attended the Ecole polytechnique and then at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. In 1823 he passed through the death of his father and his older brother to the peerage, but he was able to exert only from 1826 on. As a member and secretary of the society Aide -toi, le ciel t'aidera become acquainted with the leaders of the Liberal Party, he received after the July revolution under Jacques Laffitte on 3 November 1830, the Office of the Minister of the Interior.
His determination saved the accused ministers of Charles X in front of the outbursts of the people. On March 13, 1831, he received the post of Minister of Education, but resigned after Casimir Pierre Périers death in 1832 back to its former position as interior minister back.
The bloody suppression of the broken Jean Maximilien Lamarques funeral riots, where on 5 - and 6 June 1832, 200,000 people took part, and the declaration of martial law for the capital made his administration so hated that he resigned on October 11, 1832. The king appointed him on the Intendant of the Civil List.
From February to September 1836, he managed again and from April 1837 to March 1839 for the fourth time, the Interior Ministry, after which he took over again as director of the civil list.
De Montalivet left the Palace of Versailles set up a historic National Museum, enlarged the Louvre and had, among others, the Palace of Fontainebleau, Chateau de Pau and the castle of Saint-Cloud restored.
After the February Revolution of 1848 he retired to private life and just stepped forth to defend Louis -Philippe spiteful attacks against the Bonapartist. He died on January 4, 1880 at his castle Lagrange, after he was elected to the Senate in 1879.
Awards
Works
- Rien! dix- huit années de gouvernement parlementaire (1864 )
- La confiscation sous le second Empire (1871 )
- Casimir Périer et la politique conservatrice en 1831 et 1832 (1874 )