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FALLOUX, FREDERIC ALFRED PIERRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 155 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FALLOUX, See also:FREDERIC See also:ALFRED See also:PIERRE , See also:Comm DE (1811-,886), See also:French politician and author, was See also:born at See also:Angers on the 11th of May 1811. His See also:father had been ennobled by See also:Charles X., and Falloux began his career as a Legitimist and clerical journalist under the See also:influence of Mme See also:Swetchine. In 1846 he entered the legislature as See also:deputy for See also:Maine-et-See also:Loire, and with many other ultra-Catholics he gave real or pretended support to the revolution of 1848. See also:Louis See also:Napoleon made him See also:minister of See also:education in 1849, but disagreements with the See also:president led to his resignation within a See also:year. He had nevertheless secured the passage of the Loi Falloux (See also:March 15, 1850) for the organization of See also:primary and secondary education. This See also:law provided that the See also:clergy and members of ecclesiastical orders, male and See also:female, might exercise the profession of teaching without producing any further qualification. This exemption was extended even to priests who taught in secondary See also:schools, where a university degree was exacted from See also:lay teachers. The primary schools were put under the management of the See also:cures. Falloux was elected to the French See also:Academy in 1856. His failure to secure re-See also:election to the legislature in 1866, 1869, 187o and 1871 was due to the opposition of the stricter See also:Legitimists, who viewed with suspicion his attempts to reconcile the See also:Orleans princes with See also:Henri, See also:comte de See also:Chambord. In spite of his failure to enter the See also:National See also:Assembly his influence was very See also:great, and was increased by the intimacy of his See also:personal relations with See also:Thiers. But in 1872 he offended both sections of the monarchical party at a See also:conference arranged in the See also:hope of effecting a See also:fusion between the partisans of the comte de Chambord and of the Orleans princes, divided on the vexed question of the See also:flag.

He suggested) that the comte de Chambord might recede from his position with dignity at the See also:

desire of the National Assembly, and not content with this encroachment on royalist principles, he insinuated the possibility of a transitional See also:stage with the duc d'See also:Aumale as president of the See also:republic. His disgrace was so See also:complete that he was excommunicated by the See also:bishop of Angers in 1876. He died on the 16th of See also:January 1886. Of his numerous See also:works the best known are his Histoire de Louis X VI (1840) ; Histoire de See also:Saint See also:Pie (1845) ; De la contrerevolution (1876) ; and the See also:posthumous Memoires d'un royaliste (2 vols., 1888).

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