French statesman, born in Paris on the 19th of November 1805. He was attached to the embassies at Madrid and at The Hague. In 1840 he was placed at the head of the commercial department under the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and shortly afterward was elected deputy for Melun. Under Louis Napoleon’s presidency in 1848, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs, and in 1849 went to London as ambassador. He again took office as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1852, and remained in office until 1855. For the third time he was Foreign Minister from 1862 to 1866. From 1866 to 1870 he was a member of the Privy Council, but after that year took no further part in politics. He died in Paris on the 1st of March 1881.
