| Hippolyte Philibert Passy | |
| Term Start: | 1830 |
| Term End: | 1851 |
| Term Start2: | 10 November 1834 |
| Term End2: | 18 November 1834 |
| Office3: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start3: | 2 August 1836 |
| Term End3: | 6 September 1836 |
| Office4: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start4: | 12 May 1839 |
| Term End4: | 29 February 1840 |
| Term Start5: | 22 February 1836 |
| Term End5: | 5 September 1836 |
| Birth Date: | 1793 10, df=yes |
| Nationality: | French |
| Spouse: | Claire Fourmont-Tournay |
| Mother: | Jaquette Pauline Hélène d’Aure |
| Father: | Louis François Passy |
Hippolyte Philibert Passy (15 October 1793 – 1 June 1880)[1] was a French cavalry officer, economist and politician.
Passy was born into a aristocratic Catholic family.[2] His father, Louis François Passy,[3] was French: recevuer general des finances (Receiver General of Finance), an important office in the Ancien Régime.[4] His mother was Jaquette Pauline Hélène d’Aure.[5] Her brother, the Count d'Aure, was a riding master who fought for France in Egypt and Saint-Domingue.[2]
One of his brothers, Justin Félix, was a soldier and the father of Nobel Peace Prize winner Frédéric Passy.[2] Another brother, Antoine François, was a botanist and geologist.
In 1809, Passy joined the Cavalry School in Saumur.[6] He joined the French military in 1812,[6] and took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign.[2] After leaving the military, Passy was a journalist until 1830.[6]
In October 1830, he was elected Deputy for Louviers.[6] [1] After joining the Moderate Liberals, he served as reporter on the 1831 and 1835 Budgets.[6]
Passy held various ministerial positions in the July Monarchy and the French Second Republic.[2] He served as Minister of Finance on several occasions:
From 1835 to 1839, he was Vice-President of the Chamber.[6] During this time, he also served as Minister of Commerce from 22 February 1836 until 5 September 1836.[7] From 16 April 1839 until 12 May 1839, he was President of the Chamber of Deputies.[1]
In 1843, Passy joined the Chamber of Peers.[8] He became Minister of Finance again during the 1849 Presidency of Napoleon III, and retired from politics after the 1851 coup d'état.[6]
In 1878, he was president of the International Congress on Provident Societies, a group dedicated to discussing economics and finance.[9]
Passy married Claire Fourmont-Tournay, the daughter of Gisors's mayor, Eustache Fourmont-Tournay.[10] They had a son, Edgar, who worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an embassy secretary.[11] He was a member of the French: [[Société de l'histoire de France]], nominated by Jules Desnoyers and his uncle Antoine.[11]
Both Passy and his brother Antoine were lifelong friends of Hortense Allart, the Italian-French writer.[12] They met while visiting Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély's widow near Paris.[12] The brothers were helpful in helping Allart's husband become a local government architect.[12]