Antoine Philippe Léon Blondel (16 November 1795 – 27 April 1886) was a French politician who was briefly Minister of Finance in the last cabinet of the
French Second Republic
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Life
Antoine Léon Philippe Blondel was born in Paris on 16 November 1795.
He followed an administrative career.
During the
July Monarchy
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he was made a knight of the
Legion of Honour
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on 1 January 1834, officer on 12 March 1837 and commander on 14 April 1844.
In 1844 he was a counselor of state and director general of the forest administration.
Blondel was appointed Minister of Finance on 26 October 1851.
On 23 November 1851
François-Xavier Joseph de Casabianca was transferred from the ministry of Agriculture to that of Finance.
In the
Second French Empire
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Historians in the 1930 ...
Blondel was a counselor of state from 1854 until 8 October 1866.
On 5 March 1866 he entered the imperial senate, where he sat until 4 September 1870 among the most devoted supporters of the regime.
He died in Paris on 27 April 1886 at the age of 90.
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1795 births
1886 deaths
19th-century French politicians