Paul Boudet (13 November 1800 – 17 November 1877) was a French lawyer and politician who was Minister of the Interior from 1863 to 1865.
Life
Paul Boudet was born in
Laval, Mayenne on 13 November 1800. He was admitted to the bar of Paris in 1821.
He was an intern in the office of the elder Dupin.
Having joined the
Carbonari, he became an enthusiastic supporter of the
July Monarchy
The July Monarchy (french: Monarchie de Juillet), officially the Kingdom of France (french: Royaume de France), was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under , starting on 26 July 1830, with the July Revolution of 1830, and ending 23 F ...
.
On 4 February 1834, he was elected to represent Laval, the first constituency of Mayenne.
The next June he failed to be reelected, but in September that year was elected for the second constituency of Mayence.
He was again elected on 4 November 1837 and on 2 March 1839.
On 12 May 1839, Boudet was named Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice and Councilor of State by
Jean-Baptiste Teste
Jean-Baptiste Teste (20 October 1780, in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, Gard – 20 April 1852, in Chaillot, now in Paris) was a French politician of the July Monarchy. He fell from grace in the Teste-Cubières scandal.
Life
Early life
The son of Antoine Tes ...
, the Minister of Justice.
He ran for reelection and was confirmed in the post on 29 June 1839.
He remained in this post under the ministry of
Adolphe Thiers
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( , ; 15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France and first President of the French Third Republic.
Thiers was a key figure in the July Rev ...
. When the Thiers government fell, he returned to the opposition.
On 9 July 1842 and on 1 August 1846 he was reelected. During this period he gradually moved to the right of center, but did not take an extreme position.
He left office when the Council of State was dissolved during the
February Revolution
The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...
of 1848.
Boudet was appointed by the Assembly to serve on the new Council of State, where he remained after the coup of 2 December 1851, having joined the Bonapartist group.
On 23 June 1863 he was appointed Minister of the Interior by
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
, replacing
Victor de Persigny
Jean-Gilbert Victor Fialin, Duc de Persigny (11 January 1808 – 12 January 1872) was a statesman of the Second French Empire.
Biography
Fialin was born at Saint-Germain-Lespinasse in the Loire, where his father was Receiver of Taxes, and was ...
.
His administration was uneventful, somewhat liberal towards the press.
On 28 March 1865 he was replaced by
Charles de La Valette
Charles-Jean-Marie-Félix, ''marquis'' de La Valette (25 November 1806 – 2 May 1881) was a French politician and diplomat.
Career
Charles de La Valette was Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs in the government of Emperor Napoleon I ...
, and the same day was promoted to the senate.
With the fall of the empire, he returned to private life in September 1870.
Paul Boudet died in Paris on 17 November 1877.
Portraits
P boudet 1.jpg, Boudet as a young man
File:P boudet 3.jpg, Boudet as a deputy
File:P boudet 2.jpg
File:P boudet 5.jpg, Boudet in old age
References
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1800 births
1877 deaths
19th-century French lawyers
19th-century French politicians