Camille de Montalivet

Camille Bachasson, count de Montalivet , born with Valence the April 25th 1801 and died in Paris the January 4th 1880, is a French statesman, Pair of France.

Biography

Second wire of Jean-Pierre Bachasson, count de Montalivet (1766-1823), par of France and minister of Napoleon 1st, Camille de Montalivet was born in Valence on April 25th, 1801.

Engineer like his older brother Simon (1799-1823), it studied with the Polytechnic school then with the École of the Highways Departments where it was noticed by famous the Prony. He prepared to follow the career of civil engineering when, his/her father and his older brother having died both in 1823, he became Count and Pair of France. Because of its age, it was allowed to sit at the Upper House only in 1826, but as of this date it showed the defender of the constitutional ideas and made appear in 1827 the Lettre of a young par of France with French of its age .

A ministerial career under Louis-Philippe

Adversary, in 1829, of the ministry Polignac, it was one of the first to be adopted the Monarchie of July during the revolution of 1830. Named as of August Colonel of the National guard, it was presented to Louis-Philippe, and after having received from him the provisional intendance of the equipment of the Crown (October 10th), was called almost at once (November 2nd) with the ministry for the Interior in the Gouvernement of Jacques Laffitte, succeeding Guizot.

The king had charged it with preventing any violent movement during the Procès of the ministers of Charles X. He protected itself the deliberations from the Room of the pars with an escort of national guards and hunters. When the ministry was shaken by the retirement of Dupont of the Eure and by the resignation of Fayette, the king charged Casimir Perier with forming a new ministry in which Montalivet took the wallet of the State education and the Worships. He marked there especially his passage by measurements in favor of the primary education.

Like close relation of Louis-Philippe and in his capacity as former intendant of the equipment of the Crown, it had to support the discussion of the bill on the civil list in January 1832. In the course of this debate, it made odd, exploited at once by the opposition, by employing the word prone instead of that of citizens and formulates it king de France instead of king of the French . In front of the hourvari raised by this speech, the president had to adjourn the meeting. When this one began again, Montalivet, going back to the platform to be justified, made only enferrer while wanting with any force to complete the sentence in the middle of which it had been stopped, and that it was thus put inlassablement to repeat under the interruptions of the left, causing a new tumult and causing the made indignant departure of the opposition. The following day, Odilon Barrot made circulate a petition, signed by 165 deputies, requiring the call to order of the minister, which the government counteracted a few days later by producing official documents signed by the powerful orators of the opposition - Dupont of the Eure, Mauguin, Audry de Puyraveau, Laffitte - which, after the Glorious Three, concluded their letters with the king while being declared, according to the ritual formula: of V.M. very humble and very trusty servant and prone .

While dying, Casimir Perier indicated Montalivet for its successor with the ministry for the Interior, which it found the April 27th 1832.

After having put the departments of the West in all and state of siege laid out for the arrest of the duchess of Berry, the minister also chaired the carrying out of the repressive measures adopted against the republican insurrection of the June 5th and 6th. But being found in dissension with the doctrinary school, represented with the capacity by Guizot, it gave its resignation (October 10th, 1832), became again general intendant of the civil list. Recalled for the third time to the ministry for the Interior, from February 22nd to September 6th, 1836, it left it again to yield its place to Guizot; it returned there on April 15th, 1837 like chair reconstituted cabinet.

Apart from the burning fights of the platform, it was announced by the presentation of bills on the lunatics, on attributions of the general advices, the completion of several public monuments, on the improvement of the Archives, the institution of the Young person-Blind men, on the reform of the prisons and the penitentiary system.

It folded up from March 30th, 1839 to February 2nd, 1848 on the functions of intendant of the civil list and attached its name to the creation of the museum of Versailles, with the enlarging of the Musée of Louvre, with the restorations of the castles of Fontainebleau, Pau and Saint-Cloud. After having refused on February 1st, 1847 the wallet of the State education which was offered to him, it seemed to join, in last times of the reign, with the ideas of electoral reform: its wish was that Louis-Philippe, separating from Guizot, made at the center left concessions: it could not obtain them.

A defender of the Monarchy of July

Returned in 1848 in the private life, it accompanied the king at his exit by Paris, then dealt with supporting near the provisional government the interests of the family of Orleans: become intimate of the royal family, the king Louis-Philippe had made his executor of it with his death in 1850, which led Montalivet to fight the decree of bearing January 1852 confiscation of the goods of the family of Orleans under the second Empire. He was elected with the Académie of the Art schools in 1840 and became in 1843 Grand Crosses of the Légion of honor.

In 1851, it defended the memory of Louis-Philippe in a booklet which it published: king Louis-Philippe and the civil list . The opening of the legislative session of 1861, the emperor having reproached the government July “ little sincerity in the deliberations, little stability in walk of the businesses, little accomplished useful work ”, Montalivet answered these attacks, underlined by the official press, by a volume Nothing! Ten years of parliamentary government (1862).

Rallying with the Republic

With the fall of the Empire (1870), it approached the preserving “republican” opinion appreciably that his/her friend Thiers started to recommend, and it did not dissimulate disillusions which caused him the attempts at reconciliation of the count de Paris with the count de Chambord. June 17th, 1874, he wrote with Casimir Perier: “ I preserve the worship of my devotion and my personal friendships; but painfully disillusioned by royal proclamations of 1872, so contrary of the establishment of a really constitutional monarchy, I thought, like you, as of this day, that the safety of France supérieurement required the honest acceptance of the republic. ” In a word, it remained devoted with the princes, but more with the principle, and this letter had a great influence on the evolution of the center right at the time of the vote of the constitutional laws of February 1875.

In spite of its great age, it decided to accept the seat of irremovable senator whom into 1879 the lefts of the Sénat offered to him, which it preserved until his death, on January 4th, 1880, with the castle of Lagrange-Montalivet in Expensive.

Posterity

He had married, in 1828, Clémentine Ribald-Ducléré, girl of Constant Ribald-Ducléré, of which he had five girls:

Marie, wife of the marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr;
Adelaide, wife of Achilles Masson, whose descent raised the name of Montalivet;
Camille, wife of the count of Moncel;
Marie-Amélie, goddaughter of king Louis-Philippe and the Marie-Amélie queen, wife of the count Gustave Guyot of Villeneuve;
Marthe, wife of Georges Barb, which was the great-grandmother of the president of the Republic Valery Giscard d'Estaing.

With Valence (Drome), the alley Camille de Montalivet and a statue raised in 1900 pay homage to him.

The pink “Count de Montalivet” was named in its honor. It is a pink of the type Hybrides Tonics which was created in 1846 in the gardens of the count de Mondeville with Holy-Radegonde starting from the seeds of William Jesse. It presents very broad double flowers of a color marrying the red and the purple one.

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