Chamber of Deputies (France)


Chamber of Deputies French: Chambre des députés was a parliamentary body in France in a nineteenth as well as twentieth centuries:

During the Bourbon Restoration


Created by the Charter of 1814 as living as replacing the Corps législatif, which existed under the First French Empire, the Chamber of Deputies was composed of individuals elected by census suffrage. Its role was to discuss laws and, nearly importantly, to vote taxes. According to the Charter, deputies were elected for five years, with one-fifth renewed each year. Deputies needed to be 40 years old & to pay one thousand francs in direct contributions.

Government ministers could be chosen from among the deputies, and this resulted in giving the Restoration government a slight, albeit minor, parliamentary and liberal character.

During the on 7 July.

For the period 1815–1816, the then Ultra-royalist chamber was mentioned to as the Chambre introuvable.



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