Victor de Broglie | |
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Illustration of De Broglie (ca. 1830)
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Member of the Académie française | |
In office 1 March 1855 – 25 January 1870 |
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Preceded by | Louis de Beaupoil |
Succeeded by | Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne |
Member of the National Assembly for Eure |
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In office 28 May 1849 – 3 December 1851 |
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Preceded by | Alfred Canel |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Constituency | Pont-Audemer |
France Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
In office 1847–1848 |
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Appointed by | Louis Philippe I |
Preceded by | Louis de Beaupoil |
Succeeded by | Gustave de Beaumont |
14th Prime Minister of France | |
In office 12 March 1835 – 22 February 1836 |
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Monarch | Louis Philippe I |
Preceded by | Édouard Mortier |
Succeeded by | Adolphe Thiers |
Personal details | |
Born |
Achille Léonce Victor Charles de Broglie November 28, 1785 Paris, France |
Died | January 25, 1870 Paris, French Empire |
(aged 84)
Political party |
Doctrinaires (1815–1830) Resistance Party (1830–1848) Party of Order (1848–1851) |
Spouse(s) | Albertine de Staël-Holstein (m. 1816; her d. 1838) |
Children | Pauline Louise Albert Paul |
Profession | Diplomat |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Achille Léonce Victor Charles, 3rd Duke of Broglie (French: [vik.tɔʁ də.bʁœj]; 28 November 1785 – 25 January 1870), fully Victor de Broglie, was a French peer, statesman, and diplomat. He was the third duke of Broglie and served as president of the Council during the July Monarchy, from August 1830 to November 1830 and from March 1835 to February 1836. Victor de Broglie was close to the liberal Doctrinaires who opposed the ultra-royalists and were absorbed, under Louis-Philippe's rule, by the Orléanists.
Victor de Broglie was born in Paris on 28 November 1785, the youngest child and only son of Charles-Louis-Victor, prince de Broglie, and grandson of Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie. While his grandfather emigrated, his parents were imprisoned during the Terror. His father was guillotined in 1794, but his mother, the former Countess Sophie de Rosen (Paris 10 Mar 1764 – Paris 31 Oct 1828) managed to escape to Switzerland, where she remained until the fall of Robespierre. She then returned to Paris with her children – three older daughters and one son– and lived there quietly until 1796, when she married the Marc-René-Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d'Argenson, grandson of Louis XV's minister of war. On his grandfather's death in 1804, Victor de Broglie became the third duc de Broglie.