Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet
Marthe Camille Bachasson, 3rd Count of Montalivet (Valence, April 24, 1801 - St. Bouize, January 4, 1880) was a French statesman and a Peer of France.
Biography
Family
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 of seat 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 January 26, 1828 Clémentine Françoise Paillard-Duclère (Laval, February 21, 1806 - Paris, March 3, 1882), and had five daughters:
- Marie Adelaide Bachasson de Montalivet (November 5, 1828 - April 14, 1880), married in St. Bouize on August 17, 1847 Laurent François, marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (December 30, 1815 - January 30, 1904), son of Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (Toul, May 13, 1764 - Hyères, March 17, 1830) and wife Anne Gouvion (Toul, November 2, 1775 - Paris, June 18, 1844), and had issue
- Adélaïde Joséphine Bachasson de Montalivet (Paris, December 16, 1830 - Paris, December 14, 1920), married in St. Bouize on November 6, 1850 Antoine Achille Masson, dit de Montalivet (Meurthe-et-Moselle, Nancy, June 27, 1815 - Villedieu, October 31, 1882), son of Georges Masson and wife Claire Felaize, and had issue
- Camille Bachasson de Montalivet (September 1, 1832 - Menton, February 4, 1887), married on November 28, 1849 Théodore du Moncel (1821 - 1884) and had female issue
- Marie Amélie Bachasson de Montalivet (January 10, 1837 - March 15, 1899), married in Paris on May 16, 1861 François Gustave Adolphe Guyot de Villeneuve (October 25, 1825 - Paris, March 22, 1899), son of François-Pierre Guyot de Villeneuve and wife Joséphine Victoire Pelon, and had issue
- Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet (Paris, October 9, 1844 - Paris, August 2, 1914), married in St. Bouize on June 19, 1865 Georges Marie René Picot (Paris, December 24, 1838 - Allevard, Isère, August 16, 1909), and had issue
Trivia
- There is a Camille de Montalivet Lane in Valence, Drôme.
- The rose "Comte de Montalivet" was also named afyter him. This rose, of the Hybrid Perpetual class, was created in 1846 from the seeds of William Jesse, and its colours are marrying red and purple.