JACQUES VICTOR ALBERT, Duc DE BROGLIE (1821-1901 ), his eldest son, was born at Paris on June 13, 1821. After a brief diplomatic career at Madrid and Rome, the revolution of 1848 caused him to withdraw from public life. He had already pub lished a translation of the religious system of Leibnitz (1846). His contributions to the Revue des deux Mondes and the Or leanist and clerical organ Le Correspondant, were afterwards col lected under the titles of Etudes morales et litteraires (1853) and Questions de religion et d'histoire (1860) . These were supple mented in 1869 by a volume of Nouvelles etudes de litterature et de morale. His L'Eglise et l'empire romain an IV" siecle (1856 66) brought him a seat in the Academy in 1862. In 1870 he suc ceeded his father in the dukedom. In the following year he was elected to the National Assembly for the department of the Eure, and a few days later (on Feb. 19) was appointed ambassador in London; but in March 1872, in consequence of criticisms upon his negotiations concerning the commercial treaties between England and France, he resigned his post and took his seat in the National Assembly, where he became the leading spirit of the monarchical campaign against Thiers. On the replacement of the latter by Marshal MacMahon, the duc de Broglie became presi dent of the council and minister for foreign affairs (May 1873), but in the reconstruction of the ministry on Nov. 26 transferred himself to the ministry of the interior. His tenure of office was marked by an extreme conservatism, which roused the bitter hatred of the Republicans, while he alienated the Legitimist party by his friendly relations with the Bonapartists, and the Bona partists by an attempt to effect a compromise between the rival claimants to the monarchy. The result was the fall of the cabinet on May 18, 18 74. Three years later (May 16, 1877) he was en trusted with the formation of a new cabinet, with the object of appealing to the country and securing a new chamber more favourable to the reactionaries than its predecessor had been. The result, however, was a decisive Republican majority. The duc de Broglie was defeated in his own district, and resigned office on Nov. zo. Not being re-elected in 1885, he abandoned politics for historical work. He died in Paris on Jan. 19, 1901.
Besides editing the Souvenirs of his father (i886, etc.), the Memoires of Talleyrand (1891, etc.) and the Letters of the Duchess Albertine de Broglie (1896), he published Le Secret du roi, Corres pondance secrete de Louis XV. avec ses agents diplomatiques, (1878) ; Frederic II. et Marie Therese (1883) ; Frederic II. et Louis XV. (1885) ; Marie Therese Imperatrice (1888) ; Le Pere Lacordaire (1889) ; Maurice de Saxe et le marquis d'Argenson (1891) ; La Paix d'Aix-la-Chapelle (1892) ; L'Alliance autrichienne (1895) ; La Mission de M. de Gontaut-Biron a Berlin (1896) ; Voltaire avant et pendant la Guerre de Sept Ans (1898) ; Saint Ambroise, translated by Margaret Maitland in the series of "The Saints" (1899) .