The first ministry Thiers is the ninth ministry for the Monarchie of July, formed the February 22nd 1836 under the presidency of Adolphe Thiers to succeed the ministry Broglie. Cash 8 members, it remains in place until the September 6th 1836.

Constitution

The Broglie ministry was reversed by an unfavourable vote of the House of Commons on the question of the conversion of the revenue 5%. All started from an inopportune declaration of the Minister for Finance, Georges Humann, announcing with the Room, without the consent of the cabinet, his intention to carry out this conversion. Logic would thus like that Humann, in agreement with the majority of the deputies, is charged to constitute a new government. But Humann remains interdependent of his/her colleagues and refuses to assume the chairmanship of the Council.

To raise the mortgage of the Third Left, which played a pivot part in the inversion of the Broglie ministry, Louis-Philippe then addresses to the three pillars center-left - elder Dupin, Passy, Sauzet - but those, after having requested in vain Gerard, Molé and Montalivet, must give up fault of finding pars to be associated with their team.

Ultimately, the king will endeavor to continue the same policy by changing least possible the preceding team while introducing some personalities of the center-left to give to the Third Left the illusion an inflection on the left. After having drawn aside the duke of Broglie, the moment thus came to get rid of Guizot and the Doctrinaires and, after having detached some, to use Thiers with the head of the ministry: it is the project which Louis-Philippe had cherished in October 1834 and which the circumstances of 1836 - marked by the return to a state of calm in the street - will allow him to put at execution. Once carbonized Thiers, the hour of Mole will be able to sound.

Thiers hesitates to break with the duke of Broglie. One needs that the king asks the duke to return his freedom in Thiers, which Broglie does readily, not without informing Louis-Philippe that once named Thiers, it will not be able to get rid some without rejecting it into the republican camp.

With respect to Guizot, the king seeks compensations to offer. Guizot suggests the presidency of the Room, but it is obviously impossible that doctrinary obtains this station at the time when Thiers will need the Third Left to control. The rupture between Thiers and Guizot is thus inevitable. It is what Louis-Philippe wishes, with the risk to divide the center into opposing the center right to the center left, and to thus compromise the base of the monarchy of July.

Thiers is thus president of the Council and takes the Foreign affairs, a wallet which it already lorgnait in the ministry Mortier. He maintains with the War the marshal Maison, which he had imposed in the Broglie ministry, and with the Navy, the admiral Duperré. Three eminent representatives of the Left Third make their entry with the government: Sauzet, Passy and Pelet of Lozere replaces Persil, Duchâtel and Guizot respectively with Justice and the Worships, the Trade and Public works and the State education. Since Humann is off-side for Finances, the wallet is allotted to the count d' Argout. Remain the Interior, released by Thiers, and where the king replaces his faithful Montalivet.

Composition

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The Thiers ministry falls on the businesses from Spain. The August 12th 1836, the pronunciamiento of constrained Granja the queen regent Marie-Christine to restore the liberal Constitution of 1812 and to name a radical ministry. Thiers would like to seize himself of this pretext to intervene militarily in Spain by sending a legion of French volunteers which was formed for this purpose at the spring 1836 and which is confined with Pau under the command of the general Lebeau.

But it runs up against Louis-Philippe, viscéralement hostile with an military intervention in Spain. As of the August 16th, Thiers offers its resignation to the king “reserving himself to serve it usefully when they are completely of agreement”. In the days which follow, they have several talks to organize the succession. A few days later, Louis-Philippe asks for the dissolution of the legion of the volunteers. Thiers and all the ministers, except for Montalivet, oppose it. Louis-Philippe draws from it the conclusion, the August 25th, that the ministry is finished but request with the ministers to remain in stations by holding the secret business until a new ministry was formed.

References

Sources

  • Guy Antonetti, Louis-Philippe , Paris, Beech, 1994
  • Benoit Yvert (to dir.), Prime Ministers and presidents of the Council since 1815. History and dictionary reasoned , Paris, Perrin, 2002 - ISBN 2-262-01354-3

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