Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette (8 April 1820 – 15 August 1874) was a French politician.

Biography

La Roquette was born in

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, the half-brother of the Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud. He trained as a lawyer before embarking upon a political career. He was successively Minister of Finance (26 November 1860 – 14 November 1861),

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(1861), Vice-President of the Conseil d'État (1863), Minister of Commerce and Minister of Agriculture (1867) and finally Minister of the Interior (from 17 December 1868) in the third government of

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. He distinguished himself by his severity towards the opposition, and disapproved of the concessions of the ''Empire libéral'' in the 1860s. After the formation of the cabinet of

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on 2 January 1870, he resigned as a member of the senate and had himself elected

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for

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, he retired from political life. In 1847, he became joint owner, with his half-brother the Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud, of the

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, which he had restored, and where decades later

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died.

Sources

* ''Larousse du XXe siècle'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Forcade La Roquette, Adolphe de 1820 births 1874 deaths French Senators of the Second Empire French Ministers of Finance French Ministers of Agriculture and Commerce French interior ministers French Ministers of Public Works Politicians from Paris