Second government Odilon Deck-beam

The second ministry Odilon Barrot is made up after the elections with the legislative Assemblée in May 1849. It succeeds the First government Odilon Barrot. It is returned by the President of the Republic Louis Napoleon Bonaparte on October 30th, 1849, which forms then a government with its devotion

Composition of the government

The elections with the legislative Assemblée consolidated the " Left the Order " (monarchists), but reinforced the camp of the republicans. Also the president of the Republic Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is constrained to maintain Odilon Barrot with the head of the ministry (the marshal Bugeaud, Adolphe Thiers and Molé being challenged). It there some changes (+) compared to the First government Odilon Deck-beam.

Minister for Justice, vice-president of the Council: Odilon Deck-beam
Minister of Interior Department: Jules Dufaure, however pet peeve of the president
Foreign Minister: (+) Alexis de Tocqueville, orleanist, vice-president of the Parliament
Minister for Finance: Hippolyte Passy, economist, of opinion Orléaniste S of " gauche"
Minister for Agriculture: (+) Victor Lanjuinais
public Minister for Labor: (+) Théobald de Lacrosse
Minister for the War: General Ruhlière
Minister for the marine and the Colonies: Victor Destutt de Tracy
Minister for the State education: the count of Falloux, one of the chiefs monarchists Legitimist S

Policy of the government

In agreement with the preserving majority of the legislative Parliament and chairs it Republic, the government continues the fight against the " party républicain" which the left wing leaves reinforced elections of May 13rd. The Roman question will be the pretext about it. As soon as the electoral results are known, the government gives the order to the French task force blocked in front of Rome by the Roman army of Giuseppe Garibaldi, to pass to the offensive. June 3rd the French besiege Rome. June 11th, the Republican left tries to put in charge the government (because it is the assembly which declares the war, but the new assembly was not consulted). The request is rejected by 361 votes against and 202 for. The 13, the republican leaders invite to express peacefully in Paris to defend the Constitution which they consider violated by the government. The demonstration is dispersed by the troops of the Changarnier general and 34 deputies republican are deposed of their mandate and translated before the High court (much is in escape towards the exile). The State of siege is issued. Disorders take place in Province as of on June 10th in Toulouse, 13 Lyon is raised and of the demonstrations take place in Grenoble, Vienna, Valence, Perpignan, Strasbourg and in Combining It. They are repressed. The law of March 24th, 1849, which prohibits the political clubs is extended and the violations of the press laws are wide to muzzle the republican opinion.

The government obtains from the pope some concessions (amnesties partial and creation of an advisory counsel), Pie IX can be reinstalled in Rome under the protection of the French Army (which remains there until 1870)

But president Louis Napoleon Bonaparte supports his setting with the variation with difficulty also on October 30th it obliges the government to resign and replaces it at once by a government trained Bonapartists.

Sources

Georges Duveau, 1848 , Gallimard, collection Ideas
Ines Murat, the Second Republic , Beech
Philippe Vigier, the Second Republic , PUF, collection do I That-Know?

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