''Louis''-Charles-Élie-Amanien Decazes de Glücksbierg, 2nd Duke Decazes and 2nd Duke of

Glücksbierg Duke of Decazes, also called Duke Decazes (), is a title of French nobility that was granted in 1820 to Élie Decazes, a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from November 19, 1819 to February 20, 1820. He had already been m ...

(29 May 1819 – 16 September 1886), was a French

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and statesman.

Biography

Louis Decazes was born in Paris, the son of

Élie, duc Decazes Élie, 1st Duke of Decazes and Glücksbierg (born Élie Louis Decazes; 28 September 178024 October 1860) was a French politician, statesman, leader of the Liberalism, liberal ''Doctrinaires'' party during the Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbo ...

and his second wife, Wilhelmine de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire. He married, on 3 August 1863, Séverine-Rosalie von Löwenthal (8 January 1845,

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- 25 September 1911,

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), daughter of Jean, baron von Löwenthal. They had two children, Jean-Élie-Octave-Louis-Sévère-Amanien and Wilhelmine-Egidia-Octavie Decazes. Between 29 November 1873 and 23 November 1877, Duke Decazes served as

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in several monarchist governments of the Third Republic in the 1870s. In this role, he was responsible for conducting French foreign policy during the "War in Sight" crisis of 1875, when he managed to secure the support of all the other powers in protecting France from a potential German pre-emptive strike, and during the early stages of the

Great Eastern Crisis The Great Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878 began in the Ottoman Empire's Rumelia, administrative territories in the Balkan Peninsula in 1875, with the outbreak of several uprisings and wars that resulted in the intervention of international powers, ...

. The 2nd Duke Decazes died at Château La Grave.

Honours

Grand officier,

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(1876) *

Grand cross,

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(20 March 1877)Sovereign Ordonnance of 20 March 1877
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1819 births 1886 deaths Politicians from Paris

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