Jules Armand Dufaure

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Jules Dufaure
Albert, duc de Broglie
Acting President of France
In office
30 January 1879
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byPatrice de Mac-Mahon
Succeeded byJules Grevy
Personal details
Born
Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure

4 December 1798
Moderate Republicans
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Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (French pronunciation: [ʒyl aʁmɑ̃ dyfoʁ]; 4 December 1798 – 28 June 1881) was a French statesman who served 3 non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of France.

Biography

Dufaure was born at Saujon, Charente-Maritime, and began his career as an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a great reputation by his oratorical gifts. He abandoned law for politics and, in 1834, was elected deputy. In 1839, he became minister of public works in the ministry of Jean-de-Dieu Soult, and succeeded in freeing railway construction in France from the obstacles which until then had hampered it.

Losing office in 1840, Dufaure became one of the leaders of the Opposition, and on the outbreak of the revolution of 1848, he accepted the Republic and joined the party of moderate republicans. On 13 October, he became minister of the interior under Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, but retired on the latter's defeat in the presidential election. During the Second French Empire, Dufaure abstained from public life, and practised at the Paris bar with such success that he was elected bâtonnier in 1862.

In 1863, he succeeded to Étienne-Denis Pasquier's seat in the Académie Française. In 1871, he became a member of the Assembly, and proposed Adolphe Thiers as President of the Republic. Dufaure became the minister of justice as chief of the party of the "left-centre," and his tenure of office was distinguished by the passage of the jury-law. In 1873, he fell with Thiers, but in 1875 resumed his former post under Louis Buffet, whom he succeeded on 9 March 1876, the first to become president of the council (his predecessors wore the title of vice-presidents of the council). In the same year, he was elected a life senator. On 12 December, he withdrew from the ministry owing to the attacks of the republicans of the left in the chamber and of the conservatives in the senate.

After the conservatives' defeat on 16 May, he returned to power on 24 December 1877. Early in 1879, Dufaure took part in compelling the resignation of

Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta
, but immediately afterwards (1 February), worn out by opposition, he retired. As Prime Minister, he served as the Acting President of the Republic on 30 January 1879.

See G Picot, M. Dufaure, sa vie et ses discours (Paris, 1883).

Dufaure's First Government, 19 February 1871 – 18 May 1873

  • Jules Dufaure – President of the Council and
    Minister of Justice
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Minister of War
  • Minister of the Interior
  • Minister of Finance
  • Minister of Marine and Colonies
  • Minister of Public Instruction, Fine Arts, and Worship
  • Charles de Larcy – Minister of Public Works
  • Félix Lambrecht – Minister of Agriculture and Commerce

Changes

Dufaure's Second Government, 18–25 May 1873

Dufaure's Third Government, 23 February – 9 March 1876

Dufaure's Fourth Government, 9 March – 12 December 1876

Changes

  • 11 May 1876 –
    Émile de Marcère
    succeeds Ricard as Minister of the Interior.
  • 15 August 1876 –
    Jean Auguste Berthaud
    succeeds Courtot de Cissey as Minister of War.

Dufaure's Fifth Government, 13 December 1877 – 4 February 1879

  • Jules Dufaure
    – President of the Council and Minister of Justice
  • William Henry Waddington
    – Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Jean-Louis Borel – Minister of War
  • Émile de Marcère
    – Minister of the Interior
  • Léon Say – Minister of Finance
  • Louis Marie Alexis Pothuau
    – Minister of Marine and Colonies
  • Agénor Bardoux – Minister of Public Instruction, Fine Arts, and Worship
  • Charles de Freycinet – Minister of Public Works
  • Pierre Teisserenc de Bort – Minister of Agriculture and Commerce

Changes

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dufaure, Jules Armand Stanislas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 643.
Political offices
Preceded by
Jules Trochu
 Prime Minister of France
1871–1873 		Succeeded by
Duc de Broglie
Preceded by Minister of Justice
1871–1873 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of France
1876 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of France
1877–1879 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Justice
1877–1879 		Succeeded by
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