Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette (8 April 1820 – 15 August 1874) was a French politician.
Biography
La Roquette was born in Paris, the half-brother of the Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud. He trained as a lawyer before embarking upon a political career. He was successively Minister of Finance (26 November 1860 – 14 November 1861), senator (1861), Vice-President of the Conseil d'État (1863), Minister of Commerce and Minister of Agriculture (1867) and finally Minister of the Interior (from 17 December 1868) in the third government of Napoleon III. He distinguished himself by his severity towards the opposition, and disapproved of the concessions of the Empire libéral in the 1860s. After the formation of the cabinet of Émile Ollivier on 2 January 1870, he resigned as a member of the senate and had himself elected député for Lot-et-Garonne, thereafter becoming one of the leaders of the right. After the fall of the Second Empire, he retired from political life.
In 1847, he became joint owner, with his half-brother the Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud, of the Château Malromé, which he had restored, and where decades later Toulouse-Lautrec died.
Sources
- Larousse du XXe siècle
Third cabinet of Napoleon III (2 December 1852 - 17 July 1869) | ||
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President of the Council of State | ||
Justice | ||
Foreign Affairs | ||
Interior | ||
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Defense | ||
Marine, Colonies and Algeria | ||
Education and Cults | ||
Public works | ||
Agriculture and Commerce | ||
Beaux-Arts | ||
Emperor's Household | ||
Ministers of State | ||
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Preceded by Second cabinet of Louis Napoleon • Followed by Fourth cabinet of Napoleon III |
Fourth cabinet of Napoleon III (17 July 1869 - 27 December 1869) | ||
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Council of State | Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat | |
Justice and cults | Jean-Baptiste Duvergier | |
Foreign Affairs | Henri La Tour d'Auvergne | |
Interior | Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette | |
Finance | Pierre Magne | |
War | ||
Marine and Colonies | Charles Rigault de Genouilly | |
Education | Louis Olivier Bourbeau | |
Public works | Edmond Gressier | |
Agriculture and Commerce | Alfred Le Roux | |
Emperor's household | Jean-Baptiste Philibert Vaillant | |
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Finance ministers of France | |
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House of Valois (1518–1589) |
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House of Bourbon (1589–1792) |
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First Republic (1792–1804) |
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House of Bonaparte (1804–1814) |
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House of Bourbon (1814–1815) |
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House of Bonaparte (1815) |
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House of Bourbon (1815–1830) |
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House of Orléans (1830–1848) |
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Second Republic (1848–1852) |
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House of Bonaparte (1852–1870) | |
Third Republic (1870–1940) |
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Vichy France (1940–1944) |
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Free France (1941–1944) |
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Provisional Government (1944–1946) | |
Fourth Republic (1946–1958) |
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Fifth Republic (1958–present) |
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- 1820 births
- 1874 deaths
- Politicians from Paris
- Bonapartists
- Finance ministers of France
- Ministers of agriculture and commerce of France
- French interior ministers
- Ministers of public works of France
- French senators of the Second Empire
- Members of the 4th Corps législatif of the Second French Empire
- Members of Parliament for Lot-et-Garonne