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Cabinet of Léon Faucher

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Date formed
  
10 April 1851

Head of government
  
Léon Faucher

Date dissolved
  
26 October 1851

Head of state
  
Louis Napoleon

Cabinet of Léon Faucher

Predecessor
  
Petit ministère of 1851

Successor
  
Last cabinet of the French Second Republic

The Cabinet of Léon Faucher, in which Léon Faucher was the leading minister, was formed on 10 April 1851 by President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. It followed the Petit ministère of 1851. The cabinet was a compromise between the Parti de l'Ordre and the Bonapartists in the period before the coup d'état of 2 December 1851. The cabinet was replaced by the Last cabinet of the French Second Republic on 26 October 1851.

Ministers

Ministers were:

  • Interior: Léon Faucher (monarchist leaning)
  • Justice: Eugène Rouher (bonapartist)
  • Foreign Affairs: Jules Baroche (bonapartist)
  • War: General Jacques Louis Randon (bonapartist)
  • Navy and Colonies: Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat (monarchist)
  • Public Works: Pierre Magne (bonapartist)
  • Education and Religious Affairs: Marie Jean Pierre Pie Frédéric Dombidau de Crouseilhes (monarchist)
  • Agriculture and Commerce : Louis Buffet (monarchist)
  • Finance: Achille Fould (bonapartist)
  • Sub-secretary of State for Finance: Adolphe Vuitry (appointed 26 April 1851)

    • References

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