| Jules Dufaure | |
| Office: | Prime Minister of France |
| Term Start2: | 19 February 1871 |
| Term End2: | 24 May 1873 |
| President2: | Adolphe Thiers |
| Predecessor2: | Louis Jules Trochu |
| Successor2: | Albert, duc de Broglie |
| Term Start1: | 23 February 1876 |
| Term End1: | 12 December 1876 |
| President1: | Patrice de Mac-Mahon |
| Predecessor1: | Louis Buffet |
| Successor1: | Jules Simon |
| President: | Patrice de Mac-Mahon Himself (acting) Jules Grevy |
| Term Start: | 13 December 1877 |
| Term End: | 4 February 1879 |
| Predecessor: | Gaëtan de Rochebouët |
| Successor: | William Waddington |
| Order4: | Acting President of France |
| Term4: | 30 January 1879 |
| Primeminister4: | Himself |
| Predecessor4: | Patrice de Mac-Mahon |
| Successor4: | Jules Grevy |
| Birth Name: | Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure |
| Birth Date: | 4 December 1798 |
| Birth Place: | Saujon, Charente-Maritime, France |
| Death Place: | Rueil-Malmaison, France |
| Party: | Moderate Republicans |
| Signature: | Unterschrift Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (1798 – 1881).png |
| Spouse: | Claire Jaubert |
Jules Armand Stanislas Dufaure (in French pronounced as /ʒyl aʁmɑ̃ dyfoʁ/; 4 December 1798 – 28 June 1881) was a French statesman who served 3 non-consecutive terms as Prime Minister of France.
Dufaure was born at Saujon, Charente-Maritime, and began his career as an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a great reputation by his oratorical gifts. He abandoned law for politics and, in 1834, was elected deputy. In 1839, he became minister of public works in the ministry of Jean-de-Dieu Soult, and succeeded in freeing railway construction in France from the obstacles which until then had hampered it.
Losing office in 1840, Dufaure became one of the leaders of the Opposition, and on the outbreak of the revolution of 1848, he accepted the Republic and joined the party of moderate republicans. On 13 October, he became minister of the interior under Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, but retired on the latter's defeat in the presidential election. During the Second French Empire, Dufaure abstained from public life, and practised at the Paris bar with such success that he was elected bâtonnier in 1862.
In 1863, he succeeded to Étienne-Denis Pasquier's seat in the Académie Française. In 1871, he became a member of the Assembly, and proposed Adolphe Thiers as President of the Republic. Dufaure became the minister of justice as chief of the party of the "left-centre," and his tenure of office was distinguished by the passage of the jury-law. In 1873, he fell with Thiers, but in 1875 resumed his former post under Louis Buffet, whom he succeeded on 9 March 1876, the first to become president of the council (his predecessors wore the title of vice-presidents of the council). In the same year, he was elected a life senator. On 12 December, he withdrew from the ministry owing to the attacks of the republicans of the left in the chamber and of the conservatives in the senate.
After the conservatives' defeat on 16 May, he returned to power on 24 December 1877. Early in 1879, Dufaure took part in compelling the resignation of Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, but immediately afterwards (1 February), worn out by opposition, he retired. As Prime Minister, he served as the Acting President of the Republic on 30 January 1879.
See G Picot, M. Dufaure, sa vie et ses discours (Paris, 1883).
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