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LOUIS JOSEPH BUFFET (1818-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 757 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:JOSEPH See also:BUFFET (1818-1898)  , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at Mirecourt . After the revolution of See also:February 1848 he was elected See also:deputy for the See also:department of the See also:Vosges, and in the See also:Assembly sat on the right, pronouncing for the repression of the insurrection of See also:June 1848 and for See also:Louis See also:Napoleon See also:Bonaparte . He was See also:minister of See also:agriculture from See also:August to See also:December 1849 and from August to See also:October 1851 . Re-elected deputy in 1863, he was one of the supporters of the " Liberal See also:Empire " of Emile 011ivier, being See also:finance minister in 011ivier's See also:cabinet from See also:January to the loth of See also:April 187o . He was See also:president of the See also:National Assembly from the 4th of April 1872 to the loth of See also:March 1875, and minister of the interior in 1875 . Then, elected senator for See also:life (1876), he pronounced himself in favour of the coup d'etat of the 16th of May 1877 . See also:Buffet had some oratorical See also:talent, but shone most in opposition .

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