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JULES ARMAND STANISLAS See also: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 .
See also:Buffet, whom he succeeded on the 9th of See also: |
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