Emile ollivier biography
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Émile Ollivier (born July 2, , Marseille, France—died Aug. 20, , Saint-Gervais-les-Bains) was a French statesman, writer, and orator who, as minister of justice under Napoleon III, authored an abortive plan for achieving a governmental compromise between Napoleonic autocracy and parliamentary democracy..
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Ollivier, Olivier Émile
OLLIVIER, OLIVIER ÉMILE (1825–), French statesman, was born at Marseilles on the 2nd of July 1825. His father, Demosthènes Ollivier (1799–1884), was a vehement opponent of the July monarchy, and was returned by Marseilles to the Constituent Assembly in 1848.
His opposition to Louis Napoleon led to his banishment after the coup d’état of December 1851, and he only returned to France in 1860.
Émile Ollivier.On the establishment of the short-lived Second Republic his father’s influence with Ledru-Rollin secured for Émile Ollivier the position of commissary-general of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône. Ollivier was then twenty-three and had just been called to the Parisian bar.
Less radical in his political opinions than his father, his repression of a socialist outbreak at Marseilles commended him to General Cavaignac, who continued him in his functions by making him prefect of the department. He was shortly afterwards removed to the
