3-053-541 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Duc de Broglie, President of the Council of Ministers in France, 1873. Engraving from a photograph by Reutlinger, of '...a Liberal statesman, of the Moderate or Constitutional party. Charles Jacques Victor Albert de Broglie...was born in June, 1821. He was educated at the University of Paris. Taking political literature for his career, he became one of the editors of the Corréspondant, in which journal, with the late Count de Montalembert, he advocated respect for the Catholic religion combined with the principles of constitutional liberty. He proceeded to enter the diplomatic service, and was secretary to the embassies at Madrid and at Rome. After the revolution of 1848 he retired for a long time from public life, but was elected a member of the French Academy in 1862, upon the ground of his literary reputation. His chief work, of other than a polemical character, is that on the "History of the Church under the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century." In 1871, after the fall of the Empire, the Duc de Broglie was elected a member of the Versailles National Assembly; but he was soon afterwards appointed by M. Thiers to be French Ambassador in London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.