Editing Odilon Barrot (section)

==July Monarchy==

He presided over the banquet given by the society to the 221 deputies who had signed the address of March 1830 to [[Charles X of France|Charles X]], and threatened to reply to force by force. After the ordinances of 26 July 1830, he joined the [[National Guard (France)|National Guard]] and took an active part in the revolution. As secretary of the municipal commission, which sat at the hôtel-de-ville and formed itself into a provisional government, he was charged to convey to the chamber of deputies a protest embodying the terms which the advanced Liberals wished to impose on the king to be elected. He supported the idea of a [[constitutional monarchy]] against the extreme [[republicanism|Republicans]], and he was appointed one of the three commissioners chosen to escort Charles X out of France.{{sfn|Chisholm 1911}}

On his return he was nominated prefect of the [[Seine (département)|Seine]] ''département''. His concessions to the Parisian mob and his extreme gentleness towards those who demanded the prosecution of the ministers of Charles X led to an unflattering comparison with [[Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve|Jérôme Pétion]] under similar circumstances. [[Louis-Philippe of France|Louis Philippe]]'s government was far from satisfying his desires for reform, and he persistently urged the "broadening of the bases of the monarchy," while he protested his loyalty to the dynasty. He was returned to the chamber of deputies for the department of [[Eure]] in 1831. The day after the demonstration of June 1832 on the occasion of the funeral of [[Jean Maximilien Lamarque|General Lamarque]], he made himself indirectly the mouthpiece of the Democrats in an interview with Louis Philippe, which is given at length in his ''Mêmoires''. Subsequently, in pleading before the court of cassation on behalf of one of the rioters, he secured the annulling of the judgments given by the council of war.{{sfn|Chisholm 1911}}

The death of the [[Prince Ferdinand-Philippe of France|Duke of Orleans]] in 1842 was a blow to Barrot's party, which sought to substitute the regency of the [[Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Duchess of Orleans]] for that of the [[Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours|Duke of Nemours]] in the event of the succession of the [[Philippe, Comte de Paris|Comte de Paris]]. In 1846 Barrot made a tour in the [[Near East]], returning in time to take part a second time in the preliminaries of revolution. He organized banquets of the disaffected in the various cities of France, and demanded electoral reform to avoid revolution. He did not foresee the strength of the outbreak for which his eloquence had prepared the way, and clung to the programme of 1830. He tried to support the regency of the duchess in the chamber on 24 February, only to find that the time was past for half-measures.{{sfn|Chisholm 1911}}