Jules Bastide (22 November 1800, in

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– 2 March 1879) was a French politician, journalist and writer.

Lawyer and revolutionary

Bastide studied law for a time, and was afterward engaged in business as a timber merchant. In 1821, he became a member of the French ''Charbonnerie'', modelled after the Italian revolutionary organization

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, and took a prominent part in the Revolution of 1830. After the Revolution he received an

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command in the National Guard under the new

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. For his part in the Paris Uprising of 1832 on the occasion of the funeral of General Maximilien Lamarque, Bastide was sentenced to death, but escaped to

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Journalist and statesman

On his return to Paris in 1834, Bastide was acquitted. He occupied himself with journalism, and he contributed to the ''National'', a republican journal of which he became editor in 1836. In 1847, he founded the '' Revue Nationale'' as a collaborative venture with

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, whose ideas had thoroughly infected Bastide. After the Revolution of February 1848, Bastide's intimate knowledge of foreign affairs gained for him a ministerial post in the

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, and, after the creation of the Executive Commission, he was made Minister of Foreign Affairs. At the close of 1848 he resigned his portfolio, and, after the December 1851 coup d'état retired into private life.

Works

His writings include: * ''De l'éducation publique en France'' (1847) * ''Histoire de l'assemblée législative'' (1847) * ''La République française et l'Italie en 1848'' (1858) * ''Histoire des guerres religieuses en France'' (1859)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bastide, Jules 1800 births 1879 deaths Politicians from Paris Moderate Republicans (France) French Foreign Ministers Ministers of Marine and the Colonies Members of the 1848 Constituent Assembly Carbonari Journalists from Paris French revolutionaries Writers from Paris

Lawyer and revolutionary

Journalist and statesman

Works

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