Adolphe Thiers

Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
	Adolphe Thiers (1872)
President of France
	In office; 31 August 1871 – 24 May 1873
Prime Minister	Jules Dufaure
Preceded by	Napoleon III (as emperor)
Succeeded by	Patrice de MacMahon
Prime Minister of France
	In office; 1 March 1840 – 29 October 1840
Monarch	Louis Philippe I
Preceded by	Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie
Succeeded by	Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie
	In office; 22 February 1836 – 6 September 1836
Monarch	Louis Philippe I
Preceded by	Achille Léonce Victor Charles, Duc de Broglie
Succeeded by	Louis, Comte Molé
Foreign Minister of France
	In office; 1 March 1840 – 29 October 1840
Monarch	Louis Philippe I
Preceded by	Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie
Succeeded by	François Guizot
	In office; 22 February 1836 – 6 September 1836
Monarch	Louis Philippe I
Preceded by	Achille Léonce Victor Charles, Duc de Broglie
Succeeded by	Louis, Comte Molé
Personal details
Born	Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers; 15 April 1797; Bouc-Bel-Air, France
Died	3 September 1877 (aged 80); Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Cause of death	Stroke
Political party	Party of Resistance; (1831–1836); Party of Movement; (1836–1848); Party of Order; (1848–1852); Third Party; (1852–1870); Independent; (1870–1873); Moderate Republican; (1873–1877)
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Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (/tiˈɛər/ tee-AIR, French: [maʁi ʒozɛf lwi adɔlf tjɛʁ]; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French politician and historian. He was the second elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic.

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The Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Thiers' first employer in Paris
Prince Talleyrand, Thiers' political mentor, in 1828
First page of Histoire de la Révolution françaisecode: fr is deprecated
The police seize the presses of Thiers' newspaper, the National (July 1830).
The Arrival of the Duke of Orleans at the Hôtel de Ville (31 July 1830) by Charles-Philippe Larivière
Adolphe Thiers in the 1830s
The Chamber of Deputies (1843)
Procession carrying Napoleon's remains through Paris (15 December 1840). The return and ceremony were meticulously prepared by Thiers, though he was no longer Minister
French politician and historian Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) by Luigi Calamatta (1801-1868)

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Government of National Defense (1870–1871)	Louis-Jules Trochu
Third Republic (1871–1940)	Adolphe Thiers Patrice de MacMahon Jules Grévy Sadi Carnot Jean Casimir-Perier Félix Faure Émile Loubet Armand Fallières Raymond Poincaré Paul Deschanel Alexandre Millerand Gaston Doumergue Paul Doumer Albert Lebrun
Vichy France (1940–1944)	Philippe Pétain
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Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers (1872)

President of France
In office 31 August 1871 – 24 May 1873
Prime Minister	Jules Dufaure
Preceded by	Napoleon III (as emperor)
Succeeded by	Patrice de MacMahon
Prime Minister of France
In office 1 March 1840 – 29 October 1840
Monarch	Louis Philippe I
Preceded by	Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie
Succeeded by	Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie
In office 22 February 1836 – 6 September 1836
Monarch	Louis Philippe I
Preceded by	Achille Léonce Victor Charles, Duc de Broglie
Succeeded by	Louis, Comte Molé
Foreign Minister of France
In office 1 March 1840 – 29 October 1840
Monarch	Louis Philippe I
Preceded by	Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie
Succeeded by	François Guizot
In office 22 February 1836 – 6 September 1836
Monarch	Louis Philippe I
Preceded by	Achille Léonce Victor Charles, Duc de Broglie
Succeeded by	Louis, Comte Molé

Personal details
Born	Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-04-15)15 April 1797 Bouc-Bel-Air, France
Died	3 September 1877(1877-09-03) (aged 80) Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Cause of death	Stroke
Political party	Party of Resistance (1831–1836) Party of Movement (1836–1848) Party of Order (1848–1852) Third Party (1852–1870) Independent (1870–1873) Moderate Republican (1873–1877)
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