Tanneguy Duchâtel

Biography

Wire of the count Charles Jacques Nicolas Duchâtel (1751 - 1844), he studied the right, was made receive lawyer and collaborated, at the end of the Restoration, the drafting of the newspaper the Earth of which he was one of the founders and where he treated the economic questions. He made known himself by his Traité charity in his relationship with the social economy (1829), in which he recommends the Malthusianisme.

Because of its liberal opinions and great favor which his/her father near Louis-Philippe enjoyed, the Monarchie of July named it to advise State (1830) and decreed to him the Légion of honor. The February 21st 1833, it was elected appointed by the 4th electoral college of the Charente-Lower (Jonzac) to replace his/her father who had just been high with peerage. Friend of François Guizot, it took seat at the center right and was one of the figures of the “Doctrinaires”. He spoke on the budget and the question about the allowance about 25 million granted to the the United States of America which caused the departure of the duke of Broglie of the ministry Soult.

The April 4th 1834, it entered the ministry to the favor of the rehandling caused by this incident, like Minister the Commercial and of Public works. Subjected of this fact to re-election, it obtained the confirmation of its mandate of deputy the June 21st 1834. The same day, he was also elected by the 5th college of the department of Charente-Lower (Marennes). With the Room, he proposed and defended the bills on the customs and the savings banks.

It remained in place in the following ministry, directed by the marshal Gerard, but in the ministry for the duke of Bassano the November 10th 1834 did not appear. It took again the same wallet as of the November 18th in the ministry for the duke of Trévise and in the ministry for the duke of Broglie until the February 21st 1836 preserved it.

The September 6th 1836, it became Minister for Finance in the first ministry for the count Molé, wallet which it occupied until the April 15th 1837. In these functions, he discussed the financial question of the intervention in Spain, created a special case for extraordinary work, transported the funds of the savings bank to the sinking fund, and filed in a project of reduction of the sugar manufactured in the colonies. 6 with the September 19th 1836, it fills moreover the interim of the public Ministry of Labor, of Agriculture and of the Trade. It withdrew cabinet with the Doctrinaires the April 15th 1837. It had supported with the platform the draft amendments of the Code forest and taken a big part with the establishment of the railroads.

Its second nomination with the ministry for Agriculture and the Trade had involved its re-election, the December 18th 1834. He had also been re-elected the October 13rd 1836 after his accession with the ministry for Finances. After the dissolution of the House of Commons caused by the count Molé the October 30th 1839, it was re-elected the November 24th, was named vice-president of the Room, and was one of the most active chiefs of the coalition formed to reverse the ministry.

In the ministry made up the May 12th 1839 under the presidency of the marshal Soult, Tanneguy Duchâtel agreed to become Minister of Interior Department with for mission of rejoining the center right. But it left the government on March 1st 1840, after the cabinet had been put in minority at the Room on the question of the equipment of the duke of Nemours. Duchâtel did not form part of the second ministry Thiers which succeeded to him and was temporarily rejected in the opposition. But the fall of the cabinet brought back it to the capacity as of the October 29th 1840, in the ministry Soult where it occupied the functions of Minister of Interior Department until the February 24th 1848. These two nominations led it to be represented in front of its voters who renewed their confidence to him the June 8th 1839 and the December 5th 1840.

With the Room, Duchâtel filed in and defended a project of monument with Molière, projects on the organization of the public records, the entry of the foreign books, the acquisition of the Hôtel of Cluny, on the experiments of telegraphy of night, on the translation of ashes of, on the construction of the broad outlines of railroad, etc One of the pillars of the policy of Guizot, Duchâtel was opposed to all the reform proposals electoral by declaring that “the country satisfied” and the USA largely with the process of the official candidature.

He was re-elected appointed the July 9th 1842 and the 1846.

After the Revolution of 1848, Duchâtel, associated with the unpopularity of Guizot, spent some time in England. Returned to France, it withdrew political life. It joins together splendid collections of books, tables, sculptures and objects of Article To its death, its widow and her children gave to the Louvre five tables of foreground including two Ingres: Oedipus and the sphinx and the Source (a room of the museum bears its name).

He was elected with the Academy of Science morals and political the December 24th 1842 in section of the political, statistical economy and finances, with the armchair of Alexandre de Laborde. He was also elected member of the Académie of the Art schools in 1846, and was named Grand Cross of the Legion of honor the October 29th 1846.

He had married Églé Rosalie Paulée, girl of J-B. Paulée, large purchaser of national goods. They had as children:

Tanneguy Duchâtel (1838 - 1907), which married (1874) Marie d' Harcourt (1854 - 1889) and which was appointed under the Third Republic;
Marguerite Églé Jeanne Caroline Duchâtel (1840 - 1913), by her marriage duchess of Trémoille. She had married the duke of Thouars Louis Charles of Trémoille, historian and member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities.

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