Jules Bastide

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Jules Bastide (22 November 1800, in Paris, France – 2 March 1879) was a French politician, journalist and writer.

Lawyer and revolutionary

Bastide studied law for a time, and was afterward engaged in business as a timber merchant. In 1821, he became a member of the French Charbonnerie, modelled after the Italian revolutionary organization

Paris Uprising of 1832 on the occasion of the funeral of General Maximilien Lamarque, Bastide was sentenced to death, but escaped to London.[1]

Journalist and statesman

On his return to Paris in 1834, Bastide was acquitted. He occupied himself with journalism, and he contributed to the National, a republican journal of which he became editor in 1836. In 1847, he founded the

Executive Commission, he was made Minister of Foreign Affairs. At the close of 1848 he resigned his portfolio, and, after the December 1851 coup d'état retired into private life.[1]

Works

His writings include:

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bastide, Jules". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 501.

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