DECAZES, ELIE, Due (I780-1860), French statesman, was born at Saint Martin de Laye (Gironde) on Sept. 28, 1780. He studied law, became a judge in the tribunal of the Seine in 1806, was attached to the cabinet of Louis Bonaparte in 1807, and was counsel to the court of appeal at Paris in 181I. Immediately upon the fall of the empire he declared himself a royalist, and remained faithful to the Bourbons through the Hundred Days. He made the personal acquaintance of Louis XVIII., who appointed him prefect of police at Paris in July 1815. His marked success in that difficult position won for him the ministry of police, in suc cession to Fouche, on Sept. 24. In the interval he had been elected deputy for the Seine (Aug. 1815) and both as deputy and as minister he led the moderate royalists. His formula was "to royalize France and to nationalize the monarchy." The Moderates were in a minority in the chamber of 1815, but Decazes persuaded Louis XVIII. to dissolve the house, and the elections of Oct. 1816 gave them a majority. As minister of police he had to suppress the insurrections provoked by the ultra-royalists (the White Terror) ; then, after the resignation of the duc de Richelieu, he took the actual direction of the ministry, although the ncminal president was General J. J. P. A. Dessolle (1767-1828). He held j at the same time the portfolio of the interior. The cabinet, in which Baron Louis rofro,,f,.r of firiAnce, and Marshal Saint Cyr remained rninr.t,r of war, wai entirely its first act was to suppr,-,-, tire rninixtry held that it was incr)rnvitttile with tiff: regitne reforms met wit}, boatilit,y of the where tbe ultr, ro7,11.1.. 7/Pre in a majority, ' he got the king to ( r,:or ro,w 1,i,eral peers-. H= laws on Ili, prc-A-., ..uppressing the of the Ili, protection of ir;:_ of grt,t f'rance - and t lir 'Hwy.' 17 I), arr,(: popuLar. B__ watir_hing tly: Tr_ _ ;III ;,10,71(Iy ti,t. was iIIC7'""7: "'" (;1-1,goire. A 'tic rlanmtrr of the "L-- (11,14y: in the electoral La 7- a ; Grig()ire's electior --- T Louis, refusing to -e-' a7.
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