Bastide, JULES

Bastide, JULES, a French journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1848, and member of the Constituent Assembly, was born at Paris in 1800. Bastide was early conspicuous among the radical writers of Paris. Holding a command in the National Guard, he took part in an insurrectionary movement in June 1832, and was condemned to death, but escaped to London. Pardoned in 1834, he returned to Paris, and again devoted himself to politics in the columns of the National, and in 1847 he founded the Revue Nationale. During the revolution of 1848, he was a supporter of General Cavaignac and an opponent of socialism. In 1858 he published La République Française et l'Italie en 1848; and in 1859, Guerres de Religion en France. He died March 3, 1879.