Liberal politician and man of letters, Thiers's close ally, interior minister under the July Monarchy and foreign minister in 1871–1873
Born in Paris in 1797, the son of Napoleon's chamberlain and of Madame de Rémusat, he was a liberal journalist under the Restoration and signed the journalists' protest against the July Ordinances of 1830. Elected deputy for the Haute-Garonne that year, he held the seat until 1848. An ally of Thiers, he was minister of the interior in 1840. Re-elected under the Second Republic, he voted with the old parties hostile to the consolidation of the Republic. In the coup of 2 December 1851 he signed the decree deposing Louis Bonaparte and then had to leave France; under the Empire he wrote on the history of philosophy. Coming out for the Republic, he was Thiers's foreign minister from 1871 to 1873.
Also known as: Charles François Marie de Rémusat · Charles de Remusat
Activities and affiliations
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1830–1851
France state institutionsDeputy for the Haute-Garonne
Legislature and state representation -
1840
France state institutionsMinister of the Interior
Government and administration -
1842–1875
Scholarship and theory
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1871–1873
France state institutionsMinister of Foreign AffairsMain
Diplomacy and international organization -
1873–1875
France state institutionsDeputy for the Haute-Garonne
Legislature and state representation
Career Timeline
- 1830–1848Deputy for the Haute-Garonne
- 1840Minister of the Interior; Académie française
- 1848–1851Representative for the Haute-Garonne
- 1871–1873Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1873–1875Deputy for the Haute-Garonne