Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet

Camille de Montalivet.

Marthe Camille Bachasson, 3rd Count of Montalivet (24 April 1801, Valence – 4 January 1880, Saint-Bouize) was a French statesman and a Peer of France.

Biography

Second son of Jean-Pierre Bachasson, 1st count of Montalivet (1766–1823), peer of France and Minister of Emperor Napoléon, he was born in Valence, Drôme.

After the death of his father and brother in 1823, he inherited the title of count and peer of France, and was one of the youngest peers to sit in the Chamber of Peers.

Minister of Louis-Philippe

He joined promptly the July Monarchy during the July Revolution of 1830 and was called to the Ministry of the Interior in November, where his main task was to prevent any troubles during the trial of the former ministers of King Charles X.

Afterwards, he was alternatively Minister of the Interior and Minister of Education in the different cabinets.

After 1839, he became Intendant of the Civil List, and created the Museum of Versailles in the walls of the Palace of Versailles, in order to reconcile France with the Ancien Régime.

A supporter of the July Monarchy

After the 1848 Revolution, he defended the action of the July Monarchy, and, as intimate friend of the former royal family, acted as executor of the will of King Louis-Philippe.

Rally to Republic

After the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870, he rallied the "conservative republican" ideas of his friend Adolphe Thiers, and thus considerably eased the vote by the centre right of the constitutional laws of 1875, establishing a Republic in France.

He seated at the French Senate by 1879 to his death.

Family

He married on 26 January 1828 Clémentine Françoise Paillard-Duclère (Laval, 21 February 1806 - Paris, 3 March 1882), and had five daughters:

• Marie Adélaïde Bachasson de Montalivet (5 November 1828 - 14 April 1880), married in Saint-Bouize on 17 August 1847 Laurent François, Marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (30 December 1815 - 30 January 1904), son of Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (Toul, 13 May 1764 - Hyères, 17 March 1830) and wife Anne de Gouvion (Toul, 2 November 1775 - Paris, 18 June 1844), and had issue
• Adélaïde Joséphine Bachasson de Montalivet (Paris, 16 December 1830 - Paris, 14 December 1920), married in Saint-Bouize on 6 November 1850 Antoine Achille Masson, dit de Montalivet (Meurthe-et-Moselle, Nancy, 27 June 1815 - Villedieu, 31 October 1882), son of Georges Masson, vice mayor of Nancy in 1814, and wife Claire Felaize, and had issue
• Camille Bachasson de Montalivet (1 September 1832 - Menton, 4 February 1887), married on 28 November 1849 Théodore du Moncel (1821–1884) and had female issue
• Marie Amélie Bachasson de Montalivet (10 January 1837 - 15 March 1899), married in Paris on 16 May 1861 François Gustave Adolphe Guyot de Villeneuve (25 October 1825 - Paris, 22 March 1899), son of François-Pierre Guyot de Villeneuve and wife Joséphine Victoire Pelon, and had issue
• Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet (Paris, 9 October 1844 - Paris, 2 August 1914), married in Saint-Bouize on 19 June 1865 Georges Marie René Picot (Paris, 24 December 1838 - Allevard, Isère, 16 August 1909), son of Charles Picot (Orléans, 4 August 1795 - Paris, 31 January 1870) and wife Henriette Bidois (Paris, 1799 - Paris, 19 November 1862), and had issue; they are the great-grandparents in female line of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.^[1]

Trivia

• There is a Camille de Montalivet Lane in Valence, Drôme.
• The rose "Comte de Montalivet" was also named after him. This rose, of the Hybrid Perpetual class, was created in 1846 from the seeds of William Jesse, and its colours marry red and purple.

References

External links

•  "Montalivet, Marthe-Camille Bachasson, Comte de". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. 

Cabinet of Jacques Laffitte (2 November 1830 to 13 March 1831)
Head of state: King Louis Philippe I
President of the ministry	Jacques Laffitte	Jacques Laffitte
Interior	Camille de Montalivet Jean-Jacques Baude (Sub-secretary of State)
Justice	Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure Joseph Mérilhou
Foreign Affairs	Nicolas Joseph Maison Horace Sébastiani
War	Étienne Maurice Gérard Jean-de-Dieu Soult
Finance	Jacques Laffitte Adolphe Thiers (Sub-secretary of State)
Navy and Colonies	Horace Sébastiani Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout
Public Education and Religious Affairs	Joseph Mérilhou Félix Barthe

Cabinet of Casimir Périer (13 March 1831 to 16 May 1832)
Head of state: King Louis Philippe I
President of the ministry	Casimir Pierre Périer	Casimir Pierre Périer
Interior	Casimir Pierre Périer Camille de Montalivet
Justice	Félix Barthe
Foreign Affairs	Horace Sébastiani
War	Nicolas Soult
Finance	Joseph-Dominique Louis
Navy and Colonies	Henri de Rigny
Education and Religious Affairs	Camille de Montalivet Amédée Girod de l'Ain
Commerce and Public Works	Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout

First cabinet of Adolphe Thiers (22 February 1836 to 6 September 1836)
Head of state: King Louis Philippe I
President of the council	Adolphe Thiers	Adolphe Thiers
Foreign Affairs	Adolphe Thiers
Interior	Camille de Montalivet
Justice and Religious Affairs	Paul Jean Pierre Sauzet
War	Nicolas Joseph Maison
Finance	Antoine Maurice Apollinaire d'Argout
Navy and Colonies	Guy-Victor Duperré
Public Education	Joseph Pelet de la Lozère
Commerce and Public Works	Hippolyte Passy

Second cabinet of Louis Mathieu Molé (15 April 1837 to 31 March 1839)
Head of state: King Louis Philippe I
President of the council	Louis-Mathieu Molé	Louis-Mathieu Molé
Foreign Affairs	Louis-Mathieu Molé
Interior	Camille de Montalivet
Justice and Religious Affairs:	Félix Barthe (Minister) Narcisse Parant (Sub-secretary of State)
War	Simon Bernard
Finance	Jean Lacave-Laplagne
Navy and Colonies	Claude du Campe de Rosamel
Public Education	Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy
Public Works, Agriculture and Commerce	Nicolas Martin du Nord