Louis Mathieu, Comte 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 | Jean-de-Dieu Soult |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 11 August 1830 – 2 November 1830 |
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| Monarch | Louis Philippe I |
| Preceded by | Jean-Baptiste Jourdan |
| Succeeded by | Nicolas Joseph Maison |
| Minister of the Navy and Colonies | |
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In office 12 September 1817 – 29 December 1818 |
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| Monarch | Louis XVIII |
| Prime Minister | The Duke of Richelieu |
| Preceded by | Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr |
| Succeeded by | Pierre-Barthélémy d'Albarèdes |
| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 20 November 1813 – 1 April 1814 |
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| Monarch | Napoleon I |
| Preceded by | Claude Ambroise Régnier |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Henrion de Pansey |
| Personal details | |
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24 January 1781 Paris, Île-de-France, France |
| Died | 23 November 1855 (aged 74) Épinay-Champlâtreux, Val-d'Oise, French Empire |
| Political party |
Nonpartisan (1806–15; 1830–48) Doctrinaire (1815–1830) |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline-Joséphine de La Live (m. 1798; d. 1845) |
| Children | Clotilde and Élisabeth |
| Profession | Writer, diplomat |
Louis-Mathieu Molé (24 January 1781 – 23 November 1855), also Count Molé from 1809 to 1815, was a French statesman, close friend and associate of Louis Philippe I, King of the French during the July Monarchy (1830–1848).
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.
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