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DUFAURE, JULES ARMAND STANISLAS (1798-1881) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at Saujon (See also:Charente-Inferieure) on the 4th of See also:December 1798. He became an See also:advocate at See also:Bordeaux, where he won a See also:great reputation by his oratorical gifts, but soon abandoned See also:law for politics, and in 1834 was elected See also:deputy. In 1839 he became See also:minister of public See also:works in the See also:Soult See also:ministry, and succeeded in freeing railway construction in See also:France from the obstacles which till then had hampered it. Losing See also:office in 184o, Dufaure became one of the leaders of the Opposition, and on the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 he frankly accepted the See also:Republic, and joined the party of moderate republicans. On See also:October 13th he became minister of the interior under G. See also:Cavaignac, but retired on the latter's defeat in the presidential See also:election. During the Second See also:Empire Dufaure abstained from public See also:life, and practised at the See also:Paris See also:bar with such success that he was elected bdtonnier in 1862. In 1863 he succeeded to See also:Pasquier's seat in the French See also:Academy. In 1871 he became a member of the See also:Assembly, and it was on his See also:motion that See also:Thiers was elected See also:President of the Republic. Dufaure became the minister of See also:justice as See also:chief of the party of the " See also:left-centre," and his See also:tenure of office was distinguished by the passage of the See also:jury-law. In 1873 he See also:fell with Thiers, but in 1875 resumed his former See also:post under L. J.

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Buffet, whom he succeeded on the 9th of See also:March 1876 as president of the See also:council. In the same See also:year he was elected a life senator. On December the 12th he withdrew from the ministry owing to the attacks of the republicans of the left in the chamber and of the conservatives in the See also:senate. After the check which the conservatives received on the 16th of May he returned to See also:power on the 24th of December 1877. See also:Early in 1879 Dufaure took See also:part in compelling the resignation of See also:Marshal See also:MacMahon, but immediately afterwards (1st See also:February), worn out by opposition, he himself retired. He died in Paris on the 28th of See also:June 1881. See G. Picot, M. Dufaure, sa See also:vie et ses discours (Paris, 1883).

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