Jules Bastide

Jules Bastide (born November 22, 1800 in Paris; died March 2, 1879) was a French publicist.

He studied law for a time, and was afterward engaged in business as a timber merchant. In 1821 he became a member of the French "la Charbonnerie", modelled on that of the Italian Carbonari, and took a prominent part in the Revolution of 1830. After the July Days uprising he received an artillery, command in the national guard. For his share in the emeute in Paris (5th of June 1832) on the occasion of the funeral of General Maximilien Lamarque, Bastide was sentenced to death but escaped to London.

On his return to Paris in 1834 he was acquitted, and occupied himself with journalism, contributing to the "National", a republican journal of which he became editor in 1836. In 1847 he founded the "Revue Nationale" with the collaboration of P. J. Buchez, with whose ideas he had become infected. After the Revolution of February 1848 Bastides intimate knowledge of foreign affairs gained for him a secretarial post in the provisional government, and, after the creation of the executive commission, he was made minister of foreign affairs. At the close of 1848 he threw up his portfolio, and, after the "coup d'êtat" of December 1851, retired into private life.

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