BARROT, CAMILLE HYACINTHE ODILON ('" 1873), French politician, was born at Villefort (Lozere) on Sept. 19, 1791. He was called to the Parisian bar in 1811 and came into prominence in the revolution of July 183o, when he joined the National Guard and took an active part. As secretary of the municipal commission, which sat at the Hotel de Ville and formed itself into a provisional government, he was charged to convey to the Chamber of Deputies a protest embodying the terms which the advanced Liberals wished to impose on the king to be elected. Louis Philippe's Government was far from satisfying his desires for reform and he persistently urged the "broadening of the bases of the monarchy," while he protested his loyalty to the dynasty. He was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for the department of Eure in 1831. In 1846 Barrot made a tour in the Near East, returning in time to take part in the preliminaries of revolution. He organized banquets of the disaffected in the various cities of France and demanded electoral reform to avoid revolution. He tried to support the regency of the duchess of Orleans in the chamber on Feb. 24, only to find it too late for half-measures. He acquiesced in the republic, and gave his adhesion to Gen. Cavaignac. He became the chief of Louis Napoleon's first ministry, in the hope of extracting Liberal measures, but was dismissed in 1849 as soon as he had served the president's purpose of avoiding open conflict. After the coup d'etat of Dec. 1851 he was one of those who sought to accuse Napoleon of high treason, and suffered imprisonment. On the fall of the empire he was nominated by Thiers president of the Council of State. But his powers were then failing, and he had only filled his new office for about a year when he died at Bougival on Aug. 6 1873. Barrot was described by Thureau Dangin as "le plus solennel des indecis, le plus meditatif des irreflechis, le plus heureux des ambitioux, le plus austere des courtisans de la foule." See his Memoires, edited by Duvergier de Hauranne in