ACHILLE See also:FOULD (1800–1867)
, See also:French financier and politician, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 17th of See also:November 1800
.
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
.
As See also:early as 1842 he entered See also:political See also:life, having been elected in that See also:year as a See also:deputy for the See also:department of the Hautes See also:Pyrenees
.
From that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to his See also:death he actively busied himself with the affairs of his See also:country
.
He readily acquiesced in the revolution of See also:February 1848, and is said to have exercised a decided See also:influence in See also:financial matters on the provisional See also:government then formed
.
He shortly afterwards published two See also:pamphlets against the use of See also:paper See also:money, entitled, Pas d'See also:Assignats l and Observations sur la question financiere
.
During the See also:presidency of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
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 See also:hail the coup d'etat and the new See also:empire
.
On the 25th of See also:January 185e, in consequence of the See also:decree confiscating the See also:property of the See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans See also:family,
he resigned the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
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 See also:letter of the 19th of January 1867, when Emile 011ivier became the See also:chief adviser of the See also:emperor
.
During his last See also:tenure of office he had reduced the floating See also:debt, which the Mexican See also:war had considerably increased, by the negotiation of a See also:loan of 300 millions of francs (1863)
.
See also:Fould, besides uncommon financial abilities, had a See also: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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