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DUFAURE (1798-1881)  , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at Saujon (See also:Charente-Inferieure) on the 4th of See also:December 1798 . He became an See also:advocate at See also:Bordeaux, where he won a See also:great reputation by his oratorical gifts, but soon abandoned See also:law for politics, and in 1834 was elected See also:deputy . In 1839 he became See also:minister of public See also:works in the See also:Soult See also:ministry, and succeeded in freeing railway construction in See also:France from the obstacles which till then had hampered it . Losing See also:office in 184o, See also:Dufaure became one of the leaders of the Opposition, and on the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 he frankly accepted the See also:Republic, and joined the party of moderate republicans . On See also:October 13th he became minister of the interior under G . See also:Cavaignac, but retired on the latter's defeat in the presidential See also:election . During the Second See also:Empire Dufaure abstained from public See also:life, and practised at the See also:Paris See also:bar with such success that he was elected bdtonnier in 1862 . In 1863 he succeeded to See also:Pasquier's seat in the French See also:Academy . In 1871 he became a member of the See also:Assembly, and it was on his See also:motion that See also:Thiers was elected See also:President of the Republic . Dufaure became the minister of See also:justice as See also:chief of the party of the " See also:left-centre," and his See also:tenure of office was distinguished by the passage of the See also:jury-law . In 1873 he See also:fell with Thiers, but in 1875 resumed his former See also:post under L . J .

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Buffet, whom he succeeded on the 9th of See also:March 1876 as president of the See also:council . In the same See also:year he was elected a life senator . On December the 12th he withdrew from the ministry owing to the attacks of the republicans of the left in the chamber and of the conservatives in the See also:senate . After the check which the conservatives received on the 16th of May he returned to See also:power on the 24th of December 1877 . See also:Early in 1879 Dufaure took See also:part in compelling the resignation of See also:Marshal See also:MacMahon, but immediately afterwards (1st See also:February), worn out by opposition, he himself retired . He died in Paris on the 28th of See also:June 1881 . See G . Picot, M . Dufaure, sa See also:vie et ses discours (Paris, 1883) .

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