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BARROT, CAMILLE HYACINTHE ODILON (1791-1873) , See also:French politician, was See also:born at Villefort (See also:Lozere) on the 19th of See also:September 1791. He belonged to a legal See also:family, his See also:father, an See also:advocate of See also:Toulouse, having been a member of the See also:Convention who had voted against the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI. Odilon Barrot's earliest recollections were of the See also:October insurrection of 1795. He was sent to the military school of See also:Saint-Cyr, but presently removed to the Lycee See also:Napoleon to study See also:law and was called to the Parisian See also:bar in 1811. He was placed in the See also:office of the conventionel See also:Jean Mailhe, who was advocate before the See also:council of See also:state and the See also:court of cassation and was proscribed at the second restoration. Barrot eventually succeeded him in both positions. His dissatisfaction with the See also:government of the restoration was shown in his conduct of some See also:political trials. For his opposition in 182o to a law by which any See also:person might be arrested and detained on a See also:warrant signed by three ministers, he was summoned before a court of See also:assize, but acquitted. Although intimate with See also:Lafayette and others, he took no actual See also:share in their schemes for the overthrow of the government, but in 1827 he joined the association known as Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera. He presided over the banquet given by the society to the 221 deputies who had signed the address of See also:March 183o to See also:Charles X., and threatened to reply to force by force. After the ordinances of the 26th of See also:July 1830, he joined the See also:National Guard and took an active See also:part in the revolution. As secretary of the municipal See also:commission, which sat at the hotel-de-ville and formed itself into a provisional government, he was charged to convey to the chamber of deputies a protest embodying the terms which the advanced Liberals wished to impose on the See also:king to be elected.

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idea of a constitutional See also:monarchy against the extreme Republicans, and he was appointed one of the three commissioners chosen to escort Charles X. out of See also:France. On his return he was nominated See also:prefect of the See also:department of the See also:Seine. His concessions to the Parisian See also:mob and his extreme gentleness towards those who demanded the See also:prosecution of the ministers of Charles X. led to an unflattering comparison with See also:Jerome Petion under similar circumstances. Louis Philippe's government was far from satisfying his desires for reform, and he persistently urged the " broadening of the bases of the monarchy," while he protested his See also:loyalty to the See also:dynasty. He was returned to the chamber of deputies for the department of See also:Eure in 1831. The See also:day after the demonstration of See also:June 1832 on the occasion of the funeral of See also:General Lamarque, he made himself indirectly the See also:mouthpiece of the Democrats in an interview with Louis Philippe, which is given at length in his Memoires. Subsequently, in See also:pleading before the court of cassation on behalf of one of the rioters, he secured the annulling of the judgments given by the council of See also:war. The death of the See also:duke of See also:Orleans in 1842 was a See also:blow to Barrot's party, which sought to substitute the regency of the duchess of Orleans for that of the duke of See also:Nemours in the event of the See also:succession of the See also:count of See also:Paris. In 1846 Barrot made a tour in the Near See also:East, returning in See also:time to take part a second time in the preliminaries of revolution. He organized banquets of the disaffected in the various cities of France, and demanded electoral reform to avoid revolution. He did not foresee the strength of the outbreak for which his eloquence had prepared the way, and clung to the See also:programme of 183o. He tried to support the regency of the duchess in the chamber on the 24th: of.

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February, only to find that. the time was past. for. See also:half-See also:measures. He acquiesced in the See also:republic and gave his See also:adhesion to General See also:Cavaignac. He became the See also:chief of Louis Napoleon's first See also:ministry in the See also:hope of extracting Liberal measures, but was dismissed in 1849 as soon as he had served the See also:president's purpose of avoiding open conflict. After the coup d'etat of See also:December 1851 he was one of those who sought to accuse Napoleon of high See also:treason. He was imprisoned for a See also:short time and retired from active politics for some ten years. He was See also:drawn once more into affairs by the hopes of reform held out by Emile 011ivier, accepting in 1869 the See also:presidency of an extra-See also:parliamentary See also:committee on decentralization. After the fall of the See also:empire he was nominated by See also:Thiers, whom he had supported under Louis Philippe, president of the council of state. But his See also:powers were now failing, and he had only filled his new office for about a See also:year when he died at Bougival on the 6th of See also:August 1873. He had been sufficiently an optimist to believe in the See also:triumph of the liberal but non-republican institutions dear to him under the restoration, under Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon successively. He was unable to foresee and unwilling to accept the consequences of his political agitation in 1830 and 1848, and in spite of his talents and acknowledged See also:influence he thus failed to secure the honours won by more uncompromising politicians. He was described by Thureau-Dangin as " le plus solennel See also:des indecis, le plus meditatif des irreflechis, le plus heureux des ambitieux, le plus austere des courtisans de la foule." His See also:personal relations with Louis Philippe and Napoleon, with his views on the events in which he was concerned, are described in the four volumes of his Memoires, edited by Duvergier de Hauranne in 1875-1876.

See also Thureau-Dangin, Hist. de la monarchie de juillet.

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