Faucher

Faucher, LÉON, a French publicist and statesman, was born at Limoges, 8th September 1803. He studied at first philology and archaeology, but about the period of the July revolution (1830) betook himself to journalism and political economy. From 1830 to 1842 he was successively editor of the Temps, the Constitutionnel, and the Courrier Français. In 1843 he began to write for the Revue des Deux Mondes a series of articles on the industrial condition of England, collected in two volumes in 1845 under the title of Études sur l'Angleterre. After the revolution of 1848 he sat in the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies for the department of Maine. When Louis Napoleon was chosen president, Faucher became first minister of Public Works, and subsequently minister of the Interior; but, when the president proposed to appeal to universal suffrage, Faucher gave in his resignation, and withdrew from political life. He died at Marseilles, 14th December 1854. Several of his most valuable contributions to politics are printed in Economistes et Publicistes Contemporains, and in the Bibliothèque des Sciences Morales et Politiques.