Émile Ollivier ministry explained

Cabinet Name:Émile Ollivier
Cabinet Type:ministry
Cabinet Number:3rd
Jurisdiction:the Second French Empire
Flag:Flag of France (1794–1815, 1830–1958).svg
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Government Head:Émile Ollivier
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Predecessor:Fourth cabinet of Napoleon III
Successor:Cousin-Montauban ministry

The Émile Ollivier ministry was the penultimate government of the Second French Empire. Led by Émile Ollivier, a republican opponent of the Empire, it was initially composed of moderate bonapartists and orléanists. However following the constitutional referendum on 8 May[1] liberal members of the cabinet resigned and were replaced with politicians of a more authoritarian type.[2] [3] It lasted from 2 January 1870 until 10 August 1870, on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, when it was replaced by the Cousin-Montauban ministry.[4] It was often referred to at the time as the Ministry of 2 January (French: ministère du 2 janvier|link=no).

It was brought down by the legislature following the first defeats in the Franco-Prussian War, in the only unanimous vote of no confidence in French parliamentar history.[5]

Composition

Head of government (de facto)Minister of Justice and Religious AffairsÉmile Ollivier
President of the Council of State Félix Esquirou de Parieu[6]
Minister of War Edmond Le Bœuf until 20 July 1870[7] Pierre Charles Dejean from 20 July 1870[8]
Minister of Agriculture and Trade [9]
Minister of Public Works Auguste de Talhouët-Roy until 15 May 1870[10]
Ignace Plichon until 10 August 1870[11]
Minister of Education until 14 April 1870[12] (interim) until 15 May 1870[13]

from 15 May 1870[14]

Minister of the Navy and Colonies Charles Rigault de Genouilly[15]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Napoléon Daru until 14 April 1870[16] Émile Ollivier (ínterim) until 15 May 1870

Agénor de Gramont from 15 May 1870[17]

Ministre of Finance Louis Buffet until 14 April 1870[18] from 14 April 1870
Minister of the Interior [19]
Minister of the Arts (from 15 May 1870)
Minister of the Imperial HouseholdJean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant[20]

Notes and References

  1. [Dieter Nohlen]
  2. Book: Émile Zola. His Excellency Eugène Rougon. 2018. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-874825-0. 342.
  3. Book: David Wetzel. A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War. 2003. Univ of Wisconsin Press. 978-0-299-17494-1. 82.
  4. Book: Michael Howard. The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France 1870–1871. 2013-05-13. Routledge. 978-1-136-75306-0. 86.
  5. Book: Jean. Garrigues. 2007. Histoire du Parlement. De 1789 à nos jours. fr. Paris. Armand Colin. 978-2-200-35035-2. 244–245.
  6. Web site: Robert . Alphonse . Cougny . Gaston . Félix, Marie, Louis, Pierre Esquirou de Parieu . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 9 February 2020.
  7. Web site: LEBOEUF Edmond . senat.fr . French Senate . 9 February 2020.
  8. Book: Rachel Chrastil. The Siege of Strasbourg. 2014-04-08. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-41628-4. 54.
  9. Web site: Robert . Alphonse . Cougny . Gaston . Charles Louvet . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 9 February 2020.
  10. Web site: Robert . Alphonse . Cougny . Gaston . Auguste, Elisabeth, Joseph Bonamour de Talhouët-Roy . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 9 February 2020.
  11. Web site: Robert . Alphonse . Cougny . Gaston . Ignace, Charles Plichon . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 9 February 2020.
  12. Web site: Robert . Adolphe . Cougny . Gaston . Emile, Alexis Segris . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 10 February 2020.
  13. Web site: Robert . Adolphe . Cougny . Gaston . Maurice, Louis Richard . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 10 February 2020.
  14. Web site: Robert . Adolphe . Cougny . Gaston . Philippe, Jacques Mège . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 10 February 2020.
  15. Web site: RIGAULT DE GENOUILLY Charles . senat.fr . French Senate . 10 February 2020.
  16. Web site: Robert . Alphonse . Cougny . Gaston . Napoleon Daru . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 10 February 2020.
  17. Gramont, Antoine Agénor Alfred, Duc de . 12 . 332 . 1.
  18. Buffet, Louis Joseph . 4 . 757 . 1.
  19. Web site: Robert . Alphonse . Cougny . Gaston . Eugène, Jean-Pierre, Napoléon Chevandier de Valdrôme . assemblee-nationale.fr . French National Assembly . 10 February 2020.
  20. Web site: VAILLANT Jean-Baptiste-Philibert . Senat.fr . French Senate . 10 February 2020.