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LOUIS, See also:JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, See also:BARON (1755-1837) , See also:French statesman and financier, was See also:born at See also:Toul (Meurthe) on the 13th of See also:November 1755. At the outbreak of the Revolution the See also:abbe Louis (he had See also:early taken orders) had already some reputation as a See also:financial See also:expert. He was in favour of the constitutional See also:movement, and on the See also:great festival of federation (See also:July 14, 1790) he assisted Talleyrand, then See also:bishop of See also:Autun, to celebrate See also:mass at the See also:altar erected in the Champ de See also:Mars. In 1792, however, he emigrated to See also:England, where he spent his See also:time studying See also:English institutions and especially the financial See also:system of See also:Pitt. Returning to See also:France on the See also:establishment of the Consulate he served successively in the See also:ministry of See also:war, the See also:council of See also:state, and in the See also:finance See also:department in See also:Holland and in See also:Paris. Made a baron of the See also:empire in 1809 he nevertheless supported the See also:Bourbon restoration and was See also:minister of finance in 1814–1815. Baron Louis was See also:deputy from 1815 to 1824 and from 1827 to 1832. He resumed the See also:portfolio of finance in 1815, which he held also in the See also:Decazes ministry of 1818; he was the first minister of finance under the See also:government of Louis Philippe, and held the same portfolio in 1831–1832. In 1832 he was made a peer of France and he died on the 26th of See also:August 1837.

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