Editing Odilon Barrot (section)

==Later career==
After the coup d'état of December 1851 Barrot was one of those who sought to accuse Napoleon of high treason. He was imprisoned for a short time and retired from active politics for some ten years. He was drawn once more into affairs by the hopes of reform held out by [[Émile Ollivier]], accepting in 1869 the presidency of an extraparliamentary committee on decentralization. After the fall of the empire he was nominated by [[Adolphe Thiers]], whom he had supported under Louis Philippe, as president of the council of state, but his powers were failing, and he had only filled his new office for about a year when he died at [[Bougival]].{{sfn|Chisholm 1911}}

Barrot was described by [[Paul Thureau-Dangin]] as "the most solemn of the undecided, the most meditating of the unwise, the happiest of the ambitious, the most austere of the courtiers of the crowd" (''le plus solennel des indécis, le plus méditatif des irréfléchis, le plus heureux des ambitieux, le plus austere des courtisans de la foule'').{{sfn|Chisholm 1911}}

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  | title = [[Prime Minister of France]]
  | years = 1848–1849
  | before = [[Louis-Eugène Cavaignac]]
  | after = [[Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul]]
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