1. Odilon Barrot belonged to a legal family, his father, an advocate of Toulouse, having been a member of the Convention who had voted against the death of Louis XVI.
15 Facts About Odilon Barrot
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Odilon Barrot was sent to the military school of Saint-Cyr, but later moved to the Lycee Napoleon to study law and was called to the Parisian bar in 1811.
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Odilon Barrot married the granddaughter of the liberal politician Guillaume-Xavier Labbey de Pompieres.
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Odilon Barrot was the brother of Adolphe Barrot and Ferdinand Barrot.
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Odilon Barrot was placed in the office of the politician Jean Mailhe, who was advocate before the council of state and the court of cassation and was proscribed at the second restoration.
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Odilon Barrot presided over the banquet given by the society to the 221 deputies who had signed the address of March 1830 to Charles X, and threatened to reply to force by force.
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Odilon Barrot supported the idea of a constitutional monarchy against the extreme Republicans, and he was appointed one of the three commissioners chosen to escort Charles X out of France.
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Odilon Barrot was returned to the chamber of deputies for the department of Eure in 1831.
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In 1846 Odilon Barrot made a tour in the Near East, returning in time to take part a second time in the preliminaries of revolution.
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Odilon Barrot organized banquets of the disaffected in the various cities of France, and demanded electoral reform to avoid revolution.
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Odilon Barrot did not foresee the strength of the outbreak for which his eloquence had prepared the way, and clung to the programme of 1830.
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Odilon Barrot was Minister of Justice and "president of the council of ministers when Napoleon was absent".
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Odilon Barrot was imprisoned for a short time and retired from active politics for some ten years.
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Odilon Barrot was drawn once more into affairs by the hopes of reform held out by Emile Ollivier, accepting in 1869 the presidency of an extraparliamentary committee on decentralization.
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Odilon Barrot was described by Paul Thureau-Dangin as "the most solemn of the undecided, the most meditating of the unwise, the happiest of the ambitious, the most austere of the courtiers of the crowd".