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Elie Decazes

Élie Decazes
Duke and Peer, GCLH, KOHS
Élie, comte Decazes.jpg
Engrave of Decazes
4th Prime Minister of France
In office
19 November 1819 – 20 February 1820
Monarch Louis XVIII
Preceded by Jean-Joseph Dessolles
Succeeded by Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis de Richelieu
Minister of the Interior
In office
29 December 1818 – 20 February 1820
Prime Minister Jean-Joseph Dessolles
Preceded by Joseph Lainé
Succeeded by Joseph Jérôme Siméon
Minister of Police
In office
26 September 1815 – 29 December 1818
Prime Minister Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis de Richelieu
Preceded by Joseph Fouché
Succeeded by Office abolished
(merged into the Interior Ministry)
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Seine
In office
25 August 1815 – 4 October 1816
Preceded by Antoine Isaac de Sacy
Succeeded by Casimir Périer
Constituency Paris
Prefect of Police of Paris
In office
9 July 1815 – 29 September 1815
Appointed by Louis XVIII
Preceded by Eustache-Marie Courtin
Succeeded by Jules Anglès
Personal details
Born (1780-09-28)28 September 1780
Saint-Martin-de-Laye, Guyenne, France
Died 24 October 1860(1860-10-24) (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, .

His younger brother (1783–1868), created 1st vicomte Decazes, married in 1816 , leaving issue: Sophie de Decazes (1817–1904), married in 1835 to François de Carbonnel de Canisy, and Élie de Decazes (1822–1851), married in 1850 to Elisabeth de Mauvise de Villars, parents of Raymond Decazes (1851–1913) who married in 1887 Marie-Louise Koechlin (having seven children).


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