Luigi Des Ambrois De Nevache (30 October 1807 – 3 December 1874) was Piedmontese statesman that become president of the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

after

Italian unification The unification of Italy ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single ...

Life

Born in

Oulx Oulx ( oc, label=Occitan, Ors) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about west of Turin, in the Susa Valley on the border with France. Names Like many other towns in the Susa Va ...

, son of an officer of Sardinian army, in 1828 he graduated in law in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

, soon after his degree he entered as assistant of the district attorney of Turin. In 1841 he was named as

prefect Prefect (from the Latin ''praefectus'', substantive adjectival form of ''praeficere'': "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area. A prefect's ...

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

and in 1844 king

Charles Albert Charles Albert (; 2 October 1798 – 28 July 1849) was the King of Sardinia from 27 April 1831 until 23 March 1849. His name is bound up with the first Italian constitution, the Albertine Statute, and with the First Italian War of Independence ...

named him minister of the Interior. During his tenure as minister he supported the construction of new railways and started the planning of Fejus tunnel, he also supported the implementing of the education for the young teachers and the sons of working-class families. In 1847 the king accepted his idea and the ministry of the interior was divided in 3 other department: Public Education, Public Works and Interior. After 1847 he became minister of public works. In 1848 he was one of the authors of

Statuto Albertino The Statuto Albertino (English language, English: ''Albertine Statute'') was the constitution granted by King Charles Albert of Sardinia to the Kingdom of Sardinia on 4 March 1848 and written in Italian and French. The Statute later became the ...

, in July he left his post as minister. In the years after the 1848 he was elected as member of the

lower house A lower house is one of two Debate chamber, chambers of a Bicameralism, bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has co ...

of the kingdom of Sardinia but he was soon named as president of

Council of State A Council of State is a governmental body in a country, or a subdivision of a country, with a function that varies by jurisdiction. It may be the formal name for the cabinet or it may refer to a non-executive advisory body associated with a head o ...

. In 1859 he was the head of the Sardinian delegation at the congress of Zurich after the Italian Second war of independence. In 1849 he was also named senator of the kingdom, in 1874 he was elected president of the senate but he died 3 weeks later.From Italian senate website
/ref>

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Des Ambrois Luigi 1807 births 1874 deaths People from the Province of Turin Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy Presidents of the Italian Senate Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Kingdom of Sardinia) Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Sardinia 19th-century Italian politicians