Bonapartist interior minister who prosecuted the revolutionaries of 1848 and framed the suffrage law of 31 May
Born in Paris in 1802, he became a lawyer in 1823. Elected deputy for the Charente-Inférieure in 1847, he took part in overthrowing Guizot, and in the Constituent Assembly of 1848 he voted with the conservatives. In 1849, as procureur général, he prosecuted Blanqui, Barbès and the other accused of 15 May before the High Court at Bourges, and after 13 June he called for the indictment of Ledru-Rollin and other deputies of the Mountain. Minister of the interior from 1850, he prepared the law of 31 May restricting universal suffrage, and he was foreign minister in 1851. Under the Second Empire he presided over the Council of State from 1852 and was minister of justice from 1863 to 1869. When the Empire fell he fled to Britain and died on Jersey in 1870.
Also known as: Pierre Jules Baroche
Activities and affiliations
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1847–1851
Legislature and state representation
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1849
France state institutionsProcureur général at the High Court
Law and justice -
1850–1851
France state institutionsMinister of the Interior and of Foreign AffairsMain
Government and administration -
1852–1869
France state institutionsPresident of the Council of State and Minister of Justice
Law and justice
Career Timeline
- 1847–1851Deputy for the Charente-Inférieure
- 1849Procureur général at the High Courts of Bourges and Versailles
- 1850–1851Minister of the Interior
- 1851Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1852–1863President of the Council of State
- 1863–1869Minister of Justice