BARROT, ba-r6, Camille Hyacinthe Odllon, French statesman: b. Villefort, Lozere, 19 July 1791; d. Bougival, near Paris, 6 Aug. 1873. At 19 he pleaded before the ordinary tribunals, and at 23, by a special dispensation, before the Court of Cassation, Paris, and early acquired a high reputation for eloquence. In the political arena his oratory soon made him one of the most influential leaders of the liberal opposition. He became president of the ((Aide toix) Society in 1830, and at the July revolution in that year was one of three commissioners ap pointed to conduct the dethroned C.harles X to Cherbourg, on his way to England. Return ing, he was appointed prefect of the department of the Seine and member of the Council of State, but in a few months resigned his offices to lead the opposition to Casimir Perier and the reactionary ministers who followed him. He supported Thiers from his accession to office in March 1840, to his fall in October., when he resumed his opposition to the ministry of Guizot. He took a conspicuous part in the
reform movement of 1847, and spoke eloquently at several of the provincial reform banquets which led to the revolution of February 1E48. Made president by Thiers in his short-lived ministry, he advised the King to withdraw his troops and thus remove the last obstacle to the downfall of his throne. In the last sitting of the Chamber of Deputies he supported the claim of the Comte de Paris to the throne and the regency of the Duchess of Orleans. The February revolution considerably abated his ardor for public liberty. He held office for some time under the presidency of Louis Napoleon, but retired from active political life after the coup &hat, 2 Dec. 1851, and accepted no office under the Second Empire. In July 1872 he was made a councillor of state and vice president of the council, 6 Aug. 1873. His -(Memoires Posthumes) appeared at Paris (1875-76).