Elie, Comte Decazes
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Élie Decazes Duke and Peer, GCLH, KOHS |
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Engrave of Decazes
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| 4th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 19 November 1819 – 20 February 1820 |
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| Monarch | Louis XVIII |
| Preceded by | Jean-Joseph Dessolles |
| Succeeded by | Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis de Richelieu |
| Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 29 December 1818 – 20 February 1820 |
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| Prime Minister | Jean-Joseph Dessolles |
| Preceded by | Joseph Lainé |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Jérôme Siméon |
| Minister of Police | |
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In office 26 September 1815 – 29 December 1818 |
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| Prime Minister | Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis de Richelieu |
| Preceded by | Joseph Fouché |
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Office abolished (merged into the Interior Ministry) |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Seine |
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In office 25 August 1815 – 4 October 1816 |
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| Preceded by | Antoine Isaac de Sacy |
| Succeeded by | Casimir Périer |
| Constituency | Paris |
| Prefect of Police of Paris | |
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In office 9 July 1815 – 29 September 1815 |
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| Appointed by | Louis XVIII |
| Preceded by | Eustache-Marie Courtin |
| Succeeded by | Jules Anglès |
| Personal details | |
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28 September 1780 Saint-Martin-de-Laye, Guyenne, France |
| Died | 24 October 1860 (aged 80) Paris, Seine, French Empire |
| Political party | Doctrinaires |
| Spouse(s) |
Elisabeth Fortunée Muraire (m. 1805; her d. 1806) Wilhelmine de Saint-Aulaire (m. 1818; d. 1860) |
| Children |
Louis Frédéric Henriette |
| Education | Military School of Vendôme |
| Profession | Policeman, land owner |
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Élie-Louis, 1st Duke of Decazes and Glücksburg (born Élie-Louis Decazes; 28 September 1780 – 24 October 1860) was a French statesman, leader of the liberal Doctrinaires party during the Bourbon Restoration.
Élie Decazes was born at Saint-Martin-de-Laye, Gironde, son of Michel Decazes (1747–1832) by his wife, whom he married in 1779, Cathérine Trigant de Beaumont. He studied Law, became a Judge of the Seine Tribunal in 1806, was appointed to the Cabinet of Louis Bonaparte in 1807, and later counsel to the Court of Appeal at Paris in 1811.
Decazes married in Paris on 1 August 1805 Elisabeth-Fortunée, second daughter of Count Honoré Muraire, and who died in Paris on 24 January 1806 without issue.
Decazes married secondly on 11 August 1818 Wilhelmine-Egidia-Octavie de Beaupoil, , who died at Versailles on 8 August 1873. By her he had Louis-Charles-Élie-Amanien (1819–86), the 2nd Duke and later French Foreign Minister, Frédéric-Xavier-Stanislas Decazes (1823 – Paris, 26 February 1887), an author who died unmarried without issue, and Henriette-Guillermine-Eugénie Decazes de Glücksbierg (23 November 1824 – Tournai, November, 1899), married on 19 April 1845 a Belgian, .
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