FOURTOU, MARIE FRANCOIS OSCAR BARDY DE (1836-1897)

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FOURTOU, MARIE FRANCOIS OSCAR BARDY DE (1836-1897) , French politician, was born at Riberac (Dordogne) on the 3rd of January 1836, and represented his native department in'the National Assembly after the Franco-German War. There he proved a useful adherent to

Thiers

THIERS

, who made him minister of public works in December 1872. He was minister of religion in the cabinet of May 18-24, 1873, being the only member of the , Right included by

Thiers

THIERS

in that short-lived ministry. As minister of education, religion and the fine arts in the reconstructed cabinet of the duc de Broglie he had used his administrative

powers

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

to further clerical ends, and as minister of the interior in Broglie's cabinet in 1877 he resumed the administrative methods of the Second Empire. With a well-known Bonapartist, Baron R. C. F. Reille, as his secretary, he replacedrepublican functionaries by Bonapartist partisans, reserving a few places for the

Legitimists

LEGITIMISTS (Fr. legitimistes, from legitime, lawful, legitimate)

. In the general elections ol that year he used the whole

weight

WEIGHT

of officialdom to secure a

majority

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

for the Right, to support a clerical and reactionary programme. He accompanied

Marshal

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

MacMahon in his tom through southern France, and the presidential manifesto ol September, stating that the president would rely solely on the Senate should the elections prove unfavourable, was generally attributed to Fourtou. In spite of these efforts the cabinet fell, and a commission was appointed to inquire into their unconstitutional abuse of power. Fourtou was unseated in consequence of the revelations made in the report of the commission. In the Chamber of Deputies

Gambetta

GAMBETTA, LEON (1838-1882)

gave the lie direct to Fourtou's allegation that the republican party opposed every republican principle that was not antiquated. A duel was fought in con-sequence, but neither party was injured. He was re-elected to the chamber in 1879 and entered the Senate the next year. Failing to secure re-election to the Senate in 1885 he again entered the popular chamber as Legitimist candidate in 1889, but he took no further active part in politics. He died in Paris in 1897.
His works include Histoire de Louis XVI (184o); Histoire de Saint Pie V (1845); Mme Swetchine, sa vie et ses oeuvres (2 vols., 1859) ; La Question italienne (186o) ; De la contre-revolution (1876) ; and Memoires d'un royaliste (2 vols., 1888).

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