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Adolphe Thiers

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Born
April 14 1797
Died
0202 09 18771877
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic.

Thiers was a key figure in the July Revolution of 1830, which overthrew the Bourbon monarchy, and the French Revolution of 1848, which established the Second French Republic. He served as a prime minister in 1836, 1840 and 1848, dedicated the Arc de Triomphe, and arranged the return to France of the ashes of Napoleon from Saint-Helena. He was first a supporter, then a vocal opponent of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte . When Napoleon III seized power, Thiers was arrested and briefly expelled from France. He then returned and became an opponent of the government.

Following the defeat of France in the Franco-German War, which Thiers opposed, he was elected chief executive of the new French government and negotiated the end of the war. When the Paris Commune seized power in March 1871, Thiers gave the orders to the army for its suppression. At the age of seventy-four, he was named President of the Republic by the French National Assembly in August 1871. His chief accomplishment as president was to achieve the departure of German soldiers from most of French territory two years ahead of schedule. Opposed by the monarchists in the French assembly and the left wing of the Republicans, he resigned on 24 May 1873, and was replaced as President by Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta. When he died in 1877, his funeral became a major political event; the procession was led by two of the leaders of the republican movement, Victor Hugo and Leon Gambetta, who, at the time of his death, were his allies against the conservative monarchists.

He was also a notable literary figure, the author of a very successful ten-volume history of the French Revolution, and a twenty-volume history of the Consulate and Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1834 he was elected to the Académie Française.

Adolphe Thiers

4.1/5 ( ratings)
Born
April 14 1797
Died
0202 09 18771877
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic.

Thiers was a key figure in the July Revolution of 1830, which overthrew the Bourbon monarchy, and the French Revolution of 1848, which established the Second French Republic. He served as a prime minister in 1836, 1840 and 1848, dedicated the Arc de Triomphe, and arranged the return to France of the ashes of Napoleon from Saint-Helena. He was first a supporter, then a vocal opponent of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte . When Napoleon III seized power, Thiers was arrested and briefly expelled from France. He then returned and became an opponent of the government.

Following the defeat of France in the Franco-German War, which Thiers opposed, he was elected chief executive of the new French government and negotiated the end of the war. When the Paris Commune seized power in March 1871, Thiers gave the orders to the army for its suppression. At the age of seventy-four, he was named President of the Republic by the French National Assembly in August 1871. His chief accomplishment as president was to achieve the departure of German soldiers from most of French territory two years ahead of schedule. Opposed by the monarchists in the French assembly and the left wing of the Republicans, he resigned on 24 May 1873, and was replaced as President by Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta. When he died in 1877, his funeral became a major political event; the procession was led by two of the leaders of the republican movement, Victor Hugo and Leon Gambetta, who, at the time of his death, were his allies against the conservative monarchists.

He was also a notable literary figure, the author of a very successful ten-volume history of the French Revolution, and a twenty-volume history of the Consulate and Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1834 he was elected to the Académie Française.

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The History of the French Revolution

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Histoire de la Révolution française, Tome 1

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Histoire de la Révolution française, Tome 6

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Histoire de la Révolution française, Tome 2

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The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law (Newton Page Classics)

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The History of the French Revolution, Vol. 1 of 5: 1789 1800 (Classic Reprint)

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Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, (Vol. 3 / 20) faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution Française

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Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire (Vol. 07 / 20): faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution Française

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Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, (Vol. 1 / 20) faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution Française (French Edition)

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Histoire de la Révolution française, Tome 3

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History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon; Volume 17 and 18

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Histoire Du Consulat Et de l'Empire, Vol. 19: Faisant Suite a l'Histoire de la R�volution Fran�aise (Classic Reprint)

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Geschichte Der Franz�sischen Revolution, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo. Extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with English notes by E. E. Bowen. With maps.

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History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon: Forming a Sequel to the History of the French Revolution., Volumes 1-2

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History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon, Vol. 17: Forming a Sequel to the History of the French Revolution (Classic Reprint)

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History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon, Vol. 13: Forming a Sequel to the History of the French Revolution; (Classic Reprint)

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Adolphe Thiers, critique d'art - Salons de 1822 et de 1824

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Historia de la revolución francesa. Tomo I (Historia de la revolución francesad nº 1)

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History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon: Forming a Sequel to the History of the French Revolution, Volumes 3-4

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