DROUYN DE LHUYS, Epor ARD (1805-81). A French diplomatist and politician. He was horn in Paris. November 19, 1805. and received a thorough classical and legal education at the Collage Louis-le-Crand and the Eeole de Droit. In 1831 he was attached to the embassy at 31adrid. In 1840 lie was placed at the head of the Moreau (le Commerce, under the Minister of Foreign Affairs. and in 1842 was elected Deputy from Melon; lint having voted against the Government. he was deprived of his office by 31. Gnizot in 1843. ire thereupon he eame a bitter opponent of the statesman and signed the act of aeeusation of the Cnizot 3Iinis try drawn up by Odilon parrot. February 22, 1848. After the overthrow of Louis Philippe he was elected representative to the Constituent Assembly from the Department of Seine-et „Marne, and became president of the C mittee on Foreign Affairs. In the first Cabinet formed by Louis Napoleon. after his election to the Presidency, in December, 1848, Dronyn de became Mnister of Foreign Affairs. lu
IS49 he went to London for a short time as am bassador. and early in 1851 again bevanu• Minis ter of Foreign Affairs. After the coup d'Clat of December 2, 185I, lie became one of the vice presidents of the Senate, and in duly, 18.12. he was for the third time made Minister of Foreign Affairs. Disappointed at the issue of the Vienna conferen•es iu 1855, he resigned 1)111re. 1 n I862 he was reeaIled, but resigned in 1866. on the fall of the Empire he tied to Jersey, hut after a year returned to Frame and lived in retirP ment until his death, March 1, I881. llc was the author of a work entitled Leg pendant la guerre d'Orient (Paris, 1868). Con sult: Comte d 1 a reon rt. Dip/om a ie et diplo mates: ks (mitre winisteres de .11. ()ratty,' de Lhuys (Paris. 1882) ; also his 11('inuires, inserted in the collections of the French Academy of -floral and Political Sciences.