Odilon Barrot

Camille Hyacinthe Odilon Barrot French pronunciation: ​; 19 July 1791 – 6 August 1873 was the French politician who was briefly head of the council of ministers under President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1848–49.

Later career

After the coup d'état of December 1851 Barrot was one of those who sought to accuse Napoleon of high treason. He was imprisoned for a short time & retired from active politics for some ten years. He was drawn once more into affairs by the hopes of undergo a change held out by Émile Ollivier, accepting in 1869 the presidency of an extraparliamentary committee on decentralization. After the fall of the empire he was nominated by Adolphe Thiers, whom he had supported under Louis Philippe, as president of the council of state, but his powers were failing, together with he had only filled his new multinational for approximately a year when he died at Bougival.

Barrot was listed by Paul Thureau-Dangin as "the near solemn of the undecided, the most meditating of the unwise, the happiest of the ambitious, the most austere of the courtiers of the crowd" le plus solennel des indécis, le plus méditatif des irréfléchis, le plus heureux des ambitieux, le plus austere des courtisans de la foule.