Alfred de Falloux

France state institutions Monarchy and royalism 1811–1886 ○ Natural causes

Legitimist politician who pressed for the dissolution of the National Workshops and gave his name to the Falloux law of 1850

Born at Angers in 1811 to a father ennobled by Charles X, he began as a Legitimist and clerical journalist and entered the Chamber for Maine-et-Loire in 1846. Elected to the Constituent Assembly in April 1848 as a "republican of the morrow", he relentlessly attacked the National Workshops and in June obtained their dissolution, indirectly provoking the June Days and their repression. He backed Louis Napoleon's candidacy and became minister of public instruction and worship in Odilon Barrot's cabinet in December 1848, leaving in October 1849. The Falloux law of 15 March 1850 let the clergy teach without further qualification. He protested against the coup of 1851 and was briefly imprisoned, was elected to the Académie française in 1856, and died at Angers in 1886.

Also known as: Count of Falloux · Comte de Falloux · Frédéric Alfred Pierre de Falloux