Jacques-Charles Dupont
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Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic Prime Minister of France |
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In office 24 February 1848 – 9 May 1848 |
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King Louis Philippe (as Head of State) Louis-Mathieu Molé (as Prime Minister) |
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Executive Commission (as Head of State) François Arago (as Prime Minister) |
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| Born | 27 February 1767 Le Neubourg |
| Died | 3 March 1855 (aged 88) Rouge-Perriers |
| Political party | Moderate Republicans |
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʃaʁl dypɔ̃ də lœʁ]; 27 February 1767 – 3 March 1855) was a French lawyer and statesman.
He is best known as the first head of state of the Second Republic, after the collapse of the July Monarchy.
Born in Le Neubourg, Normandy, he was a lawyer at the parlement of Normandy when the French Revolution began. During the First Republic and the First Empire, he filled successive judicial offices at Louviers, Rouen and Évreux. He had adopted revolutionary principles, and in 1798 began his political life as a member of the French Directory's Council of Five Hundred.
In 1813 he became a member of the Corps législatif and, during the Hundred Days, was vice-president of the chamber of deputies. When the Seventh Coalition armies entered Paris, he drew up the declaration asserting the necessity of maintaining the principles of government that had been established at the Revolution. He was chosen as one of the commissioners to negotiate with the Coalition sovereigns.
From 1817 until 1849 (through the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy) he was, without interruption, a member of the chamber of deputies, and he acted consistently with the Liberal opposition, of which he was the virtual leader. For a few months in 1830 he held office as Minister of Justice, but, finding himself out of harmony with his colleagues, resigned before the end of the year and resumed his place in the opposition.
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