Government Edouard Adolphe Mortier

The ministry Mortier is the seventh ministry for the Monarchie of July, formed the November 18th 1834 under the presidency of the marshal Mortier, duke of Trévise (1768 - 1835) to succeed transitory the ministry Maret. It counts 8 members. It remains in place until the March 12th 1835.

Constitution

After the resignation of the ministry Maret, Louis-Philippe I {{er}} leans towards a combination Thiers - Molé, but Thiers prefers to get along with Guizot, because “with him, known as Vatout, it felt rather extremely to cut cruppers even with Dupin”. Actually, the Left Third is ridiculed by the collapse of the Maret ministry, and it is thus quite naturally that the king returns to Resistance and the duet Thiers - Guizot which constitutes the axis of it.

Thiers manages nevertheless to reconcile Persil with his former colleagues who reproached him for not having resigned the 4. The 15, the new ministry is ready. For the presidency of the Council and the ministry for the War, one renews the figure of the “famous sword” in the person of the marshal Mortier, duke of Trévise, faithful of the Palais Royal, which agreed to be devoted only on the personal authorities of Louis-Philippe. For the remainder, the ministry is the exact transfer of the ministry Gerard, with this difference that with the Navy, the admiral Duperré replaces the admiral Jacob, punished not to have resigned on November 4th.

Composition

President of the Council: Adolphe Edouard Casimir Joseph Mortar

Ministers (8):

Minister for the War: Adolphe Edouard Casimir Joseph Mortar

Minister of Interior Department: Adolphe Thiers

Minister for Justice and the Worships: Jean-Charles Persil

Foreign Minister: Henri de Rigny

Minister for Finance: Georges Humann

Minister for the Navy and Colonies: Guy Victor Duperré

Minister for the State education: François Guizot

Minister the Commercial: Tanneguy Duchâtel

End

“While passing, of the six months space, the Soult marshal to the Gerard marshal and the Gerard marshal to the marshal Mortar, the chair of the Council had been taken more and more for a fiction, and more the fiction became apparent, plus the opposition found there a weapon and our friends an embarrassment”, observes Guizot. The ministry is not long in breaking up, mined by the competition growing between Thiers and Guizot and the lack of authority of the Mortier marshal. This one resigns at the end of ten weeks, the February 20th 1835, officially for health reasons.

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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