Cabinet of Léon Faucher

Cabinet of Léon Faucher
France cabinet of France
Léon Faucher
Date formed	10 April 1851
Date dissolved	26 October 1851
People and organisations
Head of government	Léon Faucher
Head of state	Louis Napoleon
History
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.^[1] 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.^[2] The cabinet was replaced by the Last cabinet of the French Second Republic on 26 October 1851.^[3]

Ministers

Ministers were:^[1]

• 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

1. Recueil général des lois ... 1851, p. 139.
2. Gabriel-Robez, p. 72.
3. Galisset 1852, p. 880.

Sources

• Gabriel-Robez, Bernard. Les Secrets de la molune - La saga d'une famille jurassienne au XIXe siècle. Mon Petit Editeur. ISBN 978-2-7483-8063-7. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
• Galisset, Ch. M. (1852). Corps du droit français ou recueil complet des lois, décrets, ordonnances, sénatusconsultes, règlements ... publiés depuis 1789 jusqu'à nos jours. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
• Recueil général des lois, décrets et arrêtés. Recueil général des lois. 1851. Retrieved 2014-01-16.