Jules Dufaure

Jules Dufaure

Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (born December 4, 1798 in Saujon , Saintonge , † June 27, 1881 in Rueil-Malmaison , Hauts-de-Seine department ) was a French lawyer, politician and two-time prime minister.

career

After studying law, Dufaure settled as a lawyer in Bordeaux , where he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Liberal Party. In the cabinet of Marshal Nicolas-Jean de Dieu Soult he was Minister of Public Works in 1839 and later in the cabinet of General Louis-Eugène Cavaignac from June to December 1848 and from June to October 1849 Minister of the Interior of France . During the Second Empire under Napoléon III. Simon withdrew from political life, made friends with Adolphe Thiers and, as a moderate leader of the Left Center, contributed to the consolidation of the young Third Republic from 1871 .

prime minister

In March 1876, Dufaure was appointed Prime Minister by President Patrice de Mac-Mahon . The "Gouvernement de trêve" formed by him did not have a stable majority in the Chamber of Deputies, so Dufaure resigned in December 1876. A year later, after the dismissal of Prime Minister Gaëtan de Grimaudet de Rochebouët by President Mac-Mahon in December 1877, he was again tasked with forming a government.

Through his measured and cautious government policy, Dufaure made a significant contribution to the implementation of the parliamentary system that seemed to him to correspond best to the constitution. After the resignation of the president, Dufaure also resigned on January 30, 1879. William Henry Waddington became the new Prime Minister .

Awards

For his services to the French Republic, he became a member of the Académie française in 1863 , where he took the third chair ( armchair ) of the forty seats as the successor to the politician Étienne-Denis Pasquier .

Sources and further literature

• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Gondrom World History in Pictures , Volume 21, Bayreuth 1982