Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet

Marthe Camille Bachasson, 3rd Count of Montalivet was a French statesman and a Peer of France.

Biography

Second son of Jean-Pierre Bachasson, 1st count of Montalivet, peer of France and Minister of Emperor Napoleon, he was born in Valence, Drôme.
After the death of his father and brother in 1823, he inherited the title of count and peer of France, and was one of the youngest peers to sit in the Chamber of Peers.

He joined promptly the July Monarchy during the July Revolution of 1830 and was called to the Ministry of the Interior in November, where his main task was to prevent any troubles during the trial of the former ministers of King Charles X.
He was alternatively Minister of the Interior and Minister of Education in the different cabinets of the July Monarchy.
In 1832, he founded the Conférence Molé, a debating society that became a training ground for future political leaders.
After 1839, he became intendant of the Civil List, and created the Museum of Versailles in the walls of the Palace of Versailles, in order to reconcile France with the Ancien Régime.

After the 1848 Revolution, he defended the action of the July Monarchy, and, as intimate friend of the former royal family, acted as executor of the will of King Louis-Philippe.

After the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870, he rallied the "conservative republican" ideas of his friend Adolphe Thiers, and thus considerably eased the vote by the centre right of the constitutional laws of 1875, establishing a Republic in France.
He held a seat in the French Senate from 1879 to his death.

He married on 26 January 1828 Clémentine Françoise Paillard-Duclère, and had five daughters:

Marie Adélaïde Bachasson de Montalivet, married in Saint-Bouize on 17 August 1847 Laurent François, Marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, son of Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr and wife Anne de Gouvion, and had issue
Adélaïde Joséphine Bachasson de Montalivet, married in Saint-Bouize on 6 November 1850 Antoine Achille Masson, dit de Montalivet, son of Georges Masson, vice mayor of Nancy in 1814, and wife Claire Felaize, and had issue
Camille Bachasson de Montalivet, married on 28 November 1849 Théodore du Moncel and had female issue
Marie Amélie Bachasson de Montalivet, married in Paris on 16 May 1861 François Gustave Adolphe Guyot de Villeneuve, son of François-Pierre Guyot de Villeneuve and wife Joséphine Victoire Pelon, and had issue
Marie Adélaïde Marthe Bachasson de Montalivet, married in Saint-Bouize on 19 June 1865 Georges Marie René Picot, son of Charles Picot and wife Henriette Bidois, and had issue; they are the great-grandparents in female line of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

There is a Camille de Montalivet Lane in Valence, Drôme.
The rose "Comte de Montalivet" was also named after him. This rose, of the Hybrid Perpetual class, was created in 1846 from the seeds of William Jesse, and its colours marry red and purple.