Jules Bastide (French pronunciation:[ʒylbastid]; 22 November 1800, inParis, France – 2 March 1879) was a French politician, journalist and writer.
Bastide studied law for a time, and was afterward engaged in business as a timber merchant. In 1821, he became a member of the FrenchCharbonnerie, modelled after the Italian revolutionary organizationCarbonari, and took a prominent part in theRevolution of 1830. After the Revolution he received anartillery command in the National Guard under the newJuly Monarchy. For his part in theParis Uprising of 1832 on the occasion of the funeral of GeneralMaximilien Lamarque, Bastide was sentenced to death, but escaped toLondon.[1]
On his return to Paris in 1834, Bastide was acquitted. He occupied himself with journalism, and he contributed to theNational, a republican journal of which he became editor in 1836. In 1847, he founded theRevue Nationale as a collaborative venture withPhilippe Buchez, whose ideas had thoroughly infected Bastide. After theRevolution of February 1848, Bastide's intimate knowledge of foreign affairs gained for him a ministerial post in theprovisional government, and, after the creation of theExecutive Commission, he was made Minister of Foreign Affairs. At the close of 1848 he resigned his portfolio, and, after theDecember 1851 coup d'état retired into private life.[1]
His writings include:
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