List scandals under the monarchy of July

This article contains a list of scandals under the monarchy of July.

Several various facts implying of the characters in sight and a scandal followed one another to contribute to discredit the Monarchie of July, particularly in its last years, thus weakening it at the point to undoubtedly accelerate its fall a little.

1830 : Business of Gisquet rifles: In the middle of the threats and preparations of European war, Henri Gisquet, former associate of Casimir Perier in his house of bank, was charged by the government with the purchase with 300.000 rifles and managed to negotiate the acquisition of 566.000 weapons of English source. The press of the opposition directed on this subject against the commission agent and the ministers of serious charges. the Platform , republican newspaper, raised this question: “Isn't it true that, in the markets of rifles and from cloths, Mr. Casimir Perier and the marshal Soult each one a bribe received which would be of a million? ” Another newspaper, the Revolution , repeated the question. Both were seized and their directors translated in front of the Court of Assizes. The instruction establishes that Gisquet had treated the business for its own account, that it had paid very expensive defective rifles, and that part of these weapons, refused by the marshal Gerard (Minister for the War until the November 17th 1830), had been accepted by its successor, the Soult marshal. The writer of the Platform , Armand Marrast, was condemned the October 29th 1831 to 6 months of prison, 3.000 francs of fine and 25 francs of damages.
May 1846 : Escape from Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte of his prison. Imprisoned with Ham since 1840 because of its 2nd attempt at Putsch, he flees in Belgium.
March 12th, 1847 : Died of the Minister for Justice, Nicolas Martin of North. It would be about an attack of apoplexy, or… rather of a suicide according to the public rumor, evoking the discovery of the recent extent of the many embezzlements implying of the pars, the deputies, the civils servant. But certain sources evoke also a sex case.
July 1847 : Business Tests-Cubières: Politico-financial corruption affair: Two former ministers are judged by the Court of the Pars.

the general Despans-Cubières, being launched in the businesses recently, had poured in 1843 a bribe of 100.000 francs to the Minister for the public Travaux of then, Teste, to obtain the renewal of the concession of a salt mine.

August 1847 : Suicide by poisoning with the Arsenic of the duke of Choiseul-Praslin. This bounce of a tragic fact various splashes this time the aristocracy, another important pillar of the mode, after the scandals concerning the magistrature and the army. Imprisoned for a few days for the Meurtre of his wife, the only daughter of the marshal Sébastiani, which it misled with controlling their children, it had been threatened by his father-in-law of a judicial separation and goods if its connection Adultère, known Paris whole, continued.
December 1847 : Swindle for obtaining post of high-civil servant.

Henry, a naive applicant at a post of controller of the Contributions, being seen imposed the purchase of another place on the Court of Auditors (for someone else and with the tariff of 20.000 francs), claiming what it does not obtain, requires of the explanations by making " vagues" who reach the Minister of Justice, Hébert. The " transaction" seem to be approved by Guizot itself, in order to reward a general, Bertin, faithful to the mode and important shareholder of the Journal of the debates .

See too

List of the French Ministers for Justice
List of the French Ministers for Public works
List of personalities committed suicide

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