Government Hugues-Bernard Maret, duke of Bassano

The ministry Maret is the sixth ministry for the Monarchie of July, formed the November 10th 1834 under the presidency of Hugues-Bernard Maret, duke of Bassano (1763 - 1839), to succeed the ministry Gerard. It counts 8 members. He resigns as of the November 13rd and is replaced the November 18th 1834 and he, for this reason, is called “the ministry for the three days”.

Constitution

The resignation of the marshal Gerard, the October 29th 1834, and the consecutive resignation of all the ministers, except for Parsley and of the admiral Jacob, the November 4th, opens a very long cabinet crisis.

Louis-Philippe I {{er}} research a President of the Council which can take again the entirety of the ministry, as Gerard had taken again the ministry Soult. It starts by turning to Thiers, but this one cannot take preeminence on Guizot. The king addresses himself then to Molé, which seeks to form a ministry excluding the Doctrinaires but must note that it is impossible.

The November 8th occurs a strange palinode: the majority of the ministers, including Thiers, seem to release Guizot while proposing to the king to recall the Gerard marshal to the head of a ministry which Guizot would leave and where the duke of Broglie would return to the Foreign affairs. This second Gerard ministry would present to the Room a bill of amnesty for the insurrectionists of the riots of April 1834. This combination fails, either because the Gerard marshal, requested the November 9th, would have refused to enter there, or because Louis-Philippe would have rejected it, or persevering in its attitude of refusal of the amnesty, or fearing an evolution too parliamentary of the mode, or finally not wanting a return of Broglie, too anglophile and likely to oppose his projects of conciliation with the Austria for the matrimonial establishment of the royal Prince.

This episode, remained rather mysterious, clarifies impossibility of being limited to an installation of the preceding combination and the need for constituting an entirely new ministry, with new men, who will find a new majority. The king returns from there then to the first movement of Guizot: a ministry entirely Third Party. It thus engages of the negotiations with elder Dupin via Persil. Dupin does not want to assume the chairmanship of the Council, but it is used as intermediary with his friends: Maret, duke of Bassano is had a presentiment of for the Interior, Charles Dupin (Dupin junior) for the Navy, Hippolyte Passy for Finances. Louis-Philippe would like not to name well of president of the Council, but Dupin junior and Passy are opposed to it and Maret, turning to the king: “See it to You, Lord, one wants a president and it is me whom my colleagues indicate! ” Thus a choice is ratified which immediately will prove particularly unhappy.

The ministry, officially made up the November 10th, is entirely Tiers Party. Parsley preserves Justice. On the Foreign affairs and the War, the two ministries corresponding so that he regards as his reserved domain, Louis-Philippe imposed two faithful obscure: the count Bresson and the general-baron Bernard.

Composition

  • Ministers (8):

End

The advertisement of the constitution of the ministry is accommodated by a true storm. Its members little known, not very considerable, are badly matched the ones with the others and badly prepareds with their attributions; especially, its chief, the duke of Bassano, is a man completely discredited and lost debts, whose creditors make seize the treatment of minister as soon as known his nomination. the Newspaper of the debates treats the ministers of “eunnuques”, the Messenger of the rooms declares: “There is no more ministry. ” And Parsley called to Vatout of his/her colleagues: “Pass to me the expression, they are the foireux ones! ”

Talleyrand - which had said: “There are in France one man who is stupider than Mr. Maret and it is the duke of Bassano! ” - the pretext of its nomination and that seizes, with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, of the count Bresson, diplomatic young person 36 years which had been its first secretary with London in 1830, to resign of its embassy.

As of the November 13rd, the ministers present their resignation to the king, from where the nickname of “ministry for the three days” attached to this episode. The satirical press will call the day of November 13rd, “the day of Dupins” This last, informed by Vatout, rejects the responsibility for the business on the king: “Here what it is to put at the businesses a man sifted debts, civil imprisonments! But it is vanity to always want of the duke, of; eh, foutre! a ruined duke is worth less than the thinnest commoner! ” “It is a little strong! , Louis-Philippe exclaims when the matter is reported to him. There I have on a list the name of the duke of Bassano written with his hand! ”

The November 18th 1834, the Maret ministry yields officially the place to the ministry Mortier

References

Sources

  • Guy Antonetti, Louis-Philippe , Paris, Beech, 1994, pp. 727-730
  • 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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