Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet
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Camille Bachasson, 3rd Count of Montalivet (April 25, 1801 - January 4, 1880) was a French statesman and a Peer of France.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Family
Second son of Jean-Pierre Bachasson, 1st count of Montalivet (1766-1823), peer of France and Minister of Emperor Napoléon, he was born in Valence, Drôme.
After the death of his father and brother in 1823, he inherited the title of count and peer of France, and was one of the youngest peers of seat in the Chamber of Peers.
[edit] Minister of Louis-Philippe
He joined promptly the July Monarchy during the July Revolution of 1830 and was called to the Ministry of the Interior in November, where his main task was to prevent any troubles during the trial of the former ministers of King Charles X.
Afterwards, he was alternatively Minister of the Interior and Minister of Education in the different cabinets.
After 1839, he became Intendant of the Civil List, and created the Museum of Versailles in the walls of the Palace of Versailles, in order to reconcile France with the Ancien Régime.
[edit] A supporter of the July Monarchy
After the 1848 Revolution, he defended the action of the July Monarchy, and, as intimate friend of the former royal family, acted as executor of the will of King Louis-Philippe.
[edit] Rally to Republic
After the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870, he rallied the "conservative republican" ideas of his friend Adolphe Thiers, and thus considerably eased the vote by the centre right of the constitutional laws of 1875, establishing a Republic in France.
He seated at the French Senate by 1879 to his death.
[edit] Trivia
- There is a Camille de Montalivet Lane in Valence, Drôme.
- The rose "Comte de Montalivet" was also named afyter him. This rose, of the Hybrid Perpetual class, was created in 1846 from the seeds of William Jesse, and its colours are marrying red and purple.
| Preceded by François Guizot |
French Minister of the Interior 1830–1831 |
Succeeded by Casimir Pierre Perier |
| Preceded by Casimir Pierre Perier |
French Minister of the Interior 1832–1832 |
Succeeded by Adolphe Thiers |
| Preceded by Adolphe Thiers |
French Minister of the Interior 1836–1836 |
Succeeded by Adrien de Gasparin |
| Preceded by Adrien de Gasparin |
French Minister of the Interior 1837–1839 |
Succeeded by Adrien de Gasparin |
