Louis-Mathieu Molé
| Louis-Mathieu Molé | |
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| 16th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 6 September 1836 – 31 March 1839 |
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| Monarch | Louis Philippe I |
| Preceded by | Adolphe Thiers |
| Succeeded by | Duc de Dalmatie |
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In office 23 February 1848 – 24 February 1848 |
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| Monarch | Louis Philippe I |
| Preceded by | François Guizot |
| Succeeded by | Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure |
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| Born | 24 January 1781 Paris |
| Died | 23 November 1855 (aged 74) Seine-et-Oise (now Val-d'Oise) |
| Political party | Orleanist |
Louis-Mathieu Molé, also known as Comte Molé and Mathieu Molé (24 January 1781 – 23 November 1855) was a French statesman and 18th Prime Minister of France.
Molé was born in Paris. His father, a president of the parlement of Paris, who came of the family of the famous president noted below, was guillotined during the Terror. Count Molé's early days were spent in Switzerland and in England with his mother, a relative of Lamoignon-Malesherbes.
On his return to France, he studied at the Ecole Centrale des Travaux Publics, and his social education was accomplished in the salon of Pauline de Beaumont, the friend of Châteaubriand and Joubert. A volume of Essais de morale et de politique introduced him to the notice of Napoleon, who attached him to the staff of the council of state. He became master of requests in 1806, and next year prefect of the Côte-d'Or, Councillor of State and Director-General of Bridges and Roads in 1809, and Count of the Empire in the autumn of the same year.
He served as Napoleon’s advisor on Jewish affairs and was heavily involved with Napoleon’s gathering of a Jewish Grand Sanhedrin in 1807. Mole initially did not support Jewish emancipation, though he seems to have moderated his position over the course of his involvement with the Sanhedrin and particularly Abraham Furtado.
In November 1813, he became Minister of Justice. Although he resumed his functions as Director-General during the Hundred Days, he excused himself from taking his seat in the Council of State and was apparently not seriously compromised, for Louis XVIII confirmed his appointment as Director-General and made him a peer of France. Molé supported the policy of the duc de Richelieu, who in 1817 entrusted to him the direction of the Ministry of Marine, which he held until December 1818.
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