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powers to further clerical ends, and as minister of the interior in Broglie's cabinet in 1877 he resumed the administrative methods of the Second See also:

EMPIRE

Empire. With a well-known Bonapartist, See also:

Baron R. C. F. Reille, as his secretary, he replacedrepublican functionaries by Bonapartist partisans, reserving a few places for the See also:

LEGITIMISTS (Fr. legitimistes, from legitime, lawful, legitimate)

Legitimists. In the See also:

general elections ol that See also:

YEAR

year he used the whole See also:

WEIGHT

weight of officialdom to secure a See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority for the Right, to support a clerical and reactionary See also:

PROGRAMME, or PROGRAM

programme. He accompanied See also:

MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

Marshal See also:

MACMAHON, MARIE

MacMahon in his tom through See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

France, and the presidential manifesto ol See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September, stating that the See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president would rely solely on the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate should the elections prove unfavourable, was generally attributed to Fourtou. In spite of these efforts the cabinet See also:

fell, and a See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission was appointed to inquire into their unconstitutional abuse of See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power. Fourtou was unseated in consequence of the revelations made in the See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report of the commission.

In the Chamber of Deputies See also:

GAMBETTA, LEON (1838-1882)

Gambetta gave the See also:

lie See also:

DIRECT

direct to Fourtou's allegation that the republican party opposed every republican principle that was not antiquated. A See also:

DUEL (Ital. duello, Lat. duellum—old form of bellum-from duo, two)

duel was fought in See also:

con-sequence, but neither party was injured. He was re-elected to the chamber in 1879 and entered the Senate the next year. Failing to secure re-See also:

election to the Senate in 1885 he again entered the popular chamber as Legitimist See also:

CANDIDATE

candidate in 1889, but he took no further active See also:

PART

part in politics. He died in See also:

Paris in 1897. His works include Histoire de See also:

Louis XVI (184o); Histoire de See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

Pie V (1845); Mme See also:

SWETCHINE, MADAME (1782—1857)

Swetchine, sa See also:

vie et ses oeuvres (2 vols., 1859) ; La Question italienne (186o) ; De la contre-revolution (1876) ; and Memoires d'un royaliste (2 vols., 1888).

End of Article: FOURTOU, MARIE FRANCOIS OSCAR BARDY DE (1836-1897)

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