Achille-Léon-Victor de Broglie

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Achille-Charles-Léonce-Victor de Broglie
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Achille-Léon-Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie [ də ˈbrɔj ] (born December 1, 1785 in Paris , † January 25, 1870 ibid) was a French statesman and diplomat from the family of the dukes de Broglie .

biography

Victor de Broglie, son of General Claude-Victor de Broglie , who was guillotined in 1794 , became a state counselor, auditor, military director in Illyria , then in Valladolid , later attaché and counselor in Vienna , Prague and Warsaw under Napoleon Bonaparte .

After the death of his grandfather Victor-François de Broglie (1804) he became 3rd Duke de Broglie. Appointed peer in 1814 , he was decidedly liberal, voted “not guilty” at Ney's trial and resolutely fought the reactionary politics of the Restoration in the peers' chamber ; he belonged to the doctrinal party and, as a like-minded Guizot, represented the principles of the constitutional hereditary monarchy.

After the July Revolution , he became provisional Minister of the Interior on July 30, 1830, Minister of Culture and Public Education and President of the Council of State on August 11, but resigned with the other doctrinaires in November. From October 1832 to April 1834, then from November 1834 to February 1836, he was Foreign Minister and from March 1835 until he left, he was also Prime Minister. As such, he negotiated with Great Britain the mutual search rights and the abolition of slavery.

Since then, he has refused repeated requests to form a ministry. In 1845 he brokered the differences in search law in London , became French ambassador in London in 1847, but was recalled by the provisional government in March 1848.

In May 1849 he became a member of the National Assembly , where he became a leader of the right. In January 1851 he became president of the security committee, carried out the constitutional revision, protested against the coup d'état of December 2, 1851 and then withdrew into private life.

Member of the Académie française since 1855 , he died on January 25, 1870 in Paris.

The Duke was married to Baroness Albertine Staël von Holstein (1797–1839), daughter of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël , with whom he had the following children, since 1816 :

Works

Broglie published his literary work under the title: "Écrits et discours" (Paris 1863, 3 volumes).

From his estate his son Albert published: “Vues sur le gouvernement de la France; ouvrage inédit ” (1870, 2nd edition 1871) and “ Le libre échange et l'impôt ” (1879).

His wife Albertine wrote “Fragments sur divers sujets de religion et de morale” (anonymous, 1840).

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predecessor Office successor
Horace-François Sébastiani
Henri Gauthier de Rigny 		Foreign Minister of France
October 11, 1832–4. April 1834
March 12, 1835-22. February 1836 		Henri Gauthier de Rigny
Adolphe Thiers
Louis, baron Bignon Minister of Education of France
August 11, 1830–2. November 1830 		Joseph Merilhou
Charles-Ignace, comte de Peyronnet Minister of the Interior of France
July 31, 1830–1. August 1830 		François Guizot
personal data
SURNAME Broglie, Achille-Léon-Victor de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broglie, Victor de; Broglie, Achille-Charles-Léonce-Victor 3rd duc de; Broglie, Achille-Charles-Léonce-Victor de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French statesman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1870
Place of death Paris