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

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