DUFAURE, JULES ARMAND STANISLAS (1798-1881)

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DUFAURE, JULES ARMAND STANISLAS (1798-1881) , French statesman, was born at Saujon (

Charente

CHARENTE

-Inferieure) on the 4th of December 1798. He became an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a

great

GREAT

reputation by his oratorical gifts, but soon abandoned law for politics, and in 1834 was elected

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

. In 1839 he became minister of public works in the Soult ministry, and succeeded in freeing railway construction in France from the obstacles which till then had hampered it. Losing office in 184o,

Dufaure

DUFAURE, JULES ARMAND STANISLAS (1798-1881)

became one of the leaders of the Opposition, and on the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 he frankly accepted the Republic, and joined the party of moderate republicans. On October 13th he became minister of the interior under G. Cavaignac, but retired on the latter's defeat in the presidential election. During the Second Empire

Dufaure

DUFAURE, JULES ARMAND STANISLAS (1798-1881)

abstained from public life, and practised at the Paris bar with such success that he was elected bdtonnier in 1862. In 1863 he succeeded to
Pasquier's seat in the French

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

. In 1871 he became a member of the Assembly, and it was on his motion that

Thiers

THIERS

was elected President of the Republic. Dufaure became the minister of justice as

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of the party of the " left-centre," and his

tenure

TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

of office was distinguished by the passage of the jury-law. In 1873 he fell with

Thiers

THIERS

, but in 1875 resumed his former post under L. J. Buffet, whom he succeeded on the 9th of

March

1876 as president of the council. In the same year he was elected a life senator. On December the 12th 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 check which the conservatives received on the 16th of May he returned to power on the 24th of December 1877. Early in 1879 Dufaure took part in compelling the resignation of

Marshal

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

MacMahon, but immediately afterwards (1st February), worn out by opposition, he himself retired. He died in Paris on the 28th of June 1881.
See G. Picot, M. Dufaure, sa vie et ses discours (Paris, 1883).

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