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MARTIGNAC, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE SYLVERE See also:GAY, VICOMTE DE (1778-183z) , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Bordeaux on the loth of See also:June 1778. In 1798 he acted as secretary to Sieyes; then after serving for a while in the See also:army, he turned to literature, producing several See also:light plays. Under the See also:Empire he practised with success as an See also:advocate at Bordeaux, where in 1818 he became advocate-See also:general of the tour royale. In 1819 he was appointed procureur-general at See also:Limoges, and in 1821 was returned for See also:Marmande to the Chamber of Deputies, where he supported the policy of See also:Villele. In 1822 he was appointed councillor of See also:state, in 1823 he accompanied the duc d'See also:Angouleme to See also:Spain as See also:civil See also:commissary; in 1824 he was created a See also:viscount and appointed director-general of See also:registration. In contact with See also:practical politics his ultra-royalist views were gradually modified in the direction of the See also:Doctrinaires, and on the fall of Villele he was selected by See also:Charles X. to carry out the new policy of See also:compromise. On the 4th of See also:January 1828 he was appointed See also:minister of the interior, and, though not bearing the See also:title of See also:president, became the virtual See also:head of the See also:cabinet. He succeeded in passing the See also:act abolishing the See also:press censorship, and in persuading the See also:king to sign the ordinances of the 16th of June 1828 on the See also:Jesuits and the little seminaries. He was exposed to attack from both the extreme See also:Left and the extreme Right,and when in See also:April 1829 a See also:coalition of these See also:groups defeated him in the chamber, Charles X., who had never believed in the policy he represented, replaced him by the See also:prince de See also:Polignac. In See also:March 1830 Martignac voted with the See also:majority for the address protesting against the famous ordinances; but during the revolution that followed he remained true to his legitimist principles. His last public See also:appearance was in See also:defence of Polignac in the Chamber of Peers in See also:December 1830. He died on the 3rd of April 1832.

Martignac published Bordeaux au mois de See also:

Mars 1815 (See also:Paris, 1830), and an Essai historique sur See also:les revolutions d'Espagne et l'interventson francaise de 1823 (Paris, 1832). See also E. See also:Daudet, Le Ministere de M. de Martignac (Paris, 1875).

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