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Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) was a French lawyer, journalist, historian and statesman.
Anticlerical journalist and patriot of the liberal opposition, best-selling author with a History of the French Revolution, he is an example of the evolution of the French ruling classes in search of a new stable institutional order after the collapse of the monarchy. absolute in 1789, through its major role in the establishment of the successive political regimes that followed the failure of the Restoration in 1830.
He contributed to the Trois Glorieuses and played a decisive role in the establishment of the July Monarchy. Elected to the French Academy, he was a deputy, several times a minister and twice president of the Council.
After the revolution of 1848, he joined the Republic. Opposed to the coup of December 2, 1851 by the future Napoleon II, he did not join the Second Empire and began a long journey through the desert.
In February 1871, after the fall of the Second Empire following the defeat of Sedan during the war against Prussia, he became head of the executive power of the French Republic. He negotiates the peace treaty with Bismarck and bloodily suppresses the insurrection of the Commune. In August 1871, he became President of the French Republic. 66163345
