3-028-315 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new French ministry: M. Buffet (Finance), 1870. 'M. Buffet, the new Minister of Finance, is deputy for Vosges. He became a deputy in 1848, and accepted reluctantly from the President of the Republic the portfolio of Agriculture and of Commerce. He quitted the Ministry with M. Odilon Barrot in 1849, but received a portfolio in the Cabinet of Leon Faucher, which lasted from April to October in 1851. M. Buffet was a warm friend of Cavaignac, but accepted the election of Prince Louis Napoleon, and was twice Minister under him as President. But after the coup- d'etat he withdrew from public employment'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.