Jean-Martial Bineau was a French engineer and politician who promoted the early development of railways in France. He was Minister of Public Works during the French Second Republic, and served as Minister of Finance under the Emperor Napoleon III. He pushed through measures to increase revenues and ...
Eugène Corbin was a French procureur-général and politician. During the French Second Republic he helped suppress opposition to the government headed by Louis Napoleon. He was appointed Minister of Justice during the preparations for the coup of 2 December, but did not accept the office and was ...
Henri Philippe de Chauvelin was a French cleric and politician. He was a canon of Notre Dame de Paris and a councillor to the parlement de Paris. He ardently attacked the Society of Jesus and defended Jansenism, leading to his imprisonment on mont Saint-Michel. When he was released, he continued to ...
Ferdinand Flocon was a French journalist and politician who was one of the founding members of the Provisional Government at the start of the French Second Republic. He was Minister of Agriculture and Commerce for the Executive Commission. He opposed Louis Napoleon and was forced into exile in the ...
Jean-Baptiste Chaudié was a French colonial administrator. He was the first governor general of French West Africa AP. He governed French West Africa. During his term of office, his eventual successor Noël Ballay was twice acting governor. At the turn of the century Senegal was decimated by an ...
Albert Châtelet was a French politician and mathematician. After earning a doctorate in and serving first in the health service, then in a ballistic research unit during the First World War, Châtelet became a lecturer at École centrale de Lille and a professor at Université de Lille, rising to the ...
Christophe André Jean de Chabrol de Crouzol was a French politician who served in the administration of Napoleon, then adhered to the Bourbon Restoration. As Prefect of Rhône he acquiesced in brutal reprisals against former supporters of Bonaparte. He served as Minister of the Navy and as Minister ...
Ferdinand-Camille Dreyfus was a French journalist and politician. He became editor of L'Avenir de la Sarthe and served five months in prison for opposing the dictatorship of MacMahon. He afterward controlled Le Libéral de la Vendée. He became chief of the bureau of the financial ...
