Ferdinand Barrot

Ferdinand Victorin Barrot ( born January 10, 1806 Paris, † November 12, 1883 ibid ), son of Jean -André Barrot and brother of Odilon Barrot and Adophe, was a French lawyer and politician. As followers of Louis- Napoléon Bonaparte, he served as Interior Minister from 1849 to 1850.

Barrot studied law and settled as a lawyer. He defended in the time of the July Monarchy, among others Colonel Vaudrey, who was involved in October 1836 in a coup attempt Louis- Napoléon Bonaparte in Strasbourg, 1839 Republican Armand Barbès and finally in 1840 Napoléon himself after another coup attempt in Boulogne -sur -Mer.

On July 9, 1842 Barrot was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and took a seat there in the middle of the left one. He cared for during his time in parliament until 1848 to Algerian affairs and could obtain from Algeria large area concessions. On June 18, 1848, he was appointed as the successor Alexandre Ledru -Rollin the representative of Algeria in the National Assembly. Barrot was able to gain a seat in the legislative assembly by-election in the Seine initially unsuccessful in the elections of 23 May 1849, agreed there normally starting with the right.

Napoléon III. named him after his seizure of power in 1849 as General Secretary and on October 31, 1850 Secretary of the Interior. After the March 15, 1850 Jules Baroche took over his ministerial office, Barrot was sent as ambassador to Turin. After the coup of December 2, 1851, he was admitted to the Conseil d' État and on March 4, 1853 in the Senate. After the end of the Second Empire Barrot took no part in the political life of France, until he unsuccessfully took with Marshal MacMahon's support for election to the National Assembly on 16 May 1877. On December 4, 1877, he won a permanent seat in the Senate.

Barrot was appointed on August 12, 1857 Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.