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ACHILLE See also: born at See also: Paris on the 17th of See also: November 1800
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The son of a See also: rich Jewish banker, he was associated with and afterwards succeeded his See also: father in the management of the business
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As early as 1842 he entered See also: political See also: life, having been elected in that See also: year as a deputy for the department of the Hautes Pyrenees
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From that See also: time to his See also: death he actively busied himself with the affairs of his country
.
He readily acquiesced in the revolution of See also: February 1848, and is said to have exercised a decided influence in See also: financial matters on the provisional See also: government then formed
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He shortly afterwards published two See also: pamphlets against the use of paper See also: money, entitled, Pas d'Assignats l and Observations sur la question financiere
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During the See also: presidency of See also: Louis
See also: Napoleon he was four times See also: minister of See also: finance, and took a leading See also: part in the economical reforms then made in See also: France
.
His strong conservative tendencies led him to oppose the See also: doctrine of See also: free See also: trade, and disposed him to hail the coup d'etat and the new See also: empire
.
On the 25th of See also: January 185e, in consequence of the decree confiscating the See also: property of the See also: Orleans
See also: family,
he resigned the office of minister of finance, but was on the same See also: day appointed senator, and soon after rejoined the government as minister of See also: state and of the imperial See also: household
.
In this capacity he directed the Paris See also: exhibition of 1855
.
The events of November 186o led once more to his resignation, but he was recalled to the See also: ministry of finance in November of the following year, and retained office until the publication of the imperial letter of the 19th of January 1867, when Emile 011ivier became the chief adviser of the emperor
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During his last tenure of office he had reduced the floating See also: debt, which the Mexican war had considerably increased, by the negotiation of a loan of 300 millions of francs (1863)
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See also: Fould, besides uncommon financial abilities, had a taste for the See also: fine arts, which he See also: developed and refined during his youth by visiting See also: Italy and the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean
.
In 1857 he was made a member of the See also: Academy of the Fine Arts
.
He died at See also: Tarbes on the 5th of See also: October 1867
.
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