FRÉDÉRIC ALFRED PIERRE

FRÉDÉRIC ALFRED PIERRE, VICOMTE DE FALLOUX (1811-1886), author and statesman, born at Angers; member of the House of Deputies; favoured the revolutionaries of 1848, and under the Presidency of Louis Napoleon became Minister of Public Instruction; retired in 1849, and became a member of the French Academy (1857); author of a "History of Louis XVI." and a "History of Pius V.," both characterised by a strong Legitimist bias.