BARROT, CAMILLE IIYACEiTITE °DILLON, a French jurist and statesman, son of a member of the convention, and afterwards of the council of, five hundred, was b. at Villefurt, LozZre, 19th July, 1791. In lti14, he became an advocate iu the court of cassation, Paris, and soon acquired a high reputation as an eloquent pleader. Entering the chamber of deputies young, he in time came to be regarded as one of the most influential leaders of the liberal opposition. At the revolution of 1830, he was one of the three commissioners appointed by the provisional government to accompany Charles X. from Rambouillet to Cherbourg, on his embarkation to England. Under the new govern ment, he was appointed prefect of. the department of the Seine; and in Lafayette's ministry, a member of the council of state. In it few mouths. however, he resigned his office of prefect, and declined the post of ambassador at Constantinople. offered him by Louis Philippe. After Casimir Wrier became minister, he lost also his place in the council of state. He now began his opposition career in the chamber of deputies against the reactionary policy of the government, and became the rallying-point for all who desired the carrying out of the principles of the July revolution. He essentially con tributed to the removal of the doctrinaires (q.v.) from office, in Feb. 1836, and energetically opposed the ministry of Mole, even supporting the doctrinaires in accomplishing its overthrow, in Jan. 1839. The same year he visited England and Scotland. When, in
Mar. 1840, Thiers was placed at the head of the government, B. for the first time declared himself in favor of time ministerial policy on the oriental question. On the return of Guizot to office iu Oct. following, his opposition to the government was renewed. Taking a conspicuous part in the reform movement of 1847, he attended several of the provincial reform banquets, which led to the revolution of 1848. On the outbreak of the struggle of 23d Feb., when Louis Philippe called upon Tillers to form a new ministry, B. was appointed president. His advice to the king to withdraw his troops proved fatal to the throne of July. In the last sitting of the chamber of deputies, B. supported the claim of the count de Paris to the throne, and the regency of the duchess of Orleans. Under the presidency of Louis Napoleon be was for some time minister, and conducted the government with success till 18.51, when he retired from active political life. He, however, took part in the conference in favor of Poland. held at Paris in 1864_ In 1872, lie was made a councilor of state and vice-president of time council. In his retirement, he wrote a pamphlet, .De la Centralisatiiin et de ses Effets (1S61), etc. He died in 1873.