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Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure | |
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President of the Provisional Government | |
In office 26 February 1848 – 9 May 1848 | |
Preceded by | Louis Philippe II (as King of the French) François Guizot (as Prime Minister of France) |
Succeeded by | François Arago (as President of the Executive Commission) |
Personal details | |
Born | 27 February 1767 Le Neubourg, Kingdom of France |
Died | 3 March 1855 Rouge-Perriers, French Empire | (aged 88)
Political party | Moderate Republicans |
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʃaʁl dypɔ̃ də lœʁ]; 27 February 1767 – 3 March 1855) was a French lawyer and statesman.
He is best known as the first head of state of the Second Republic, after the collapse of the July Monarchy as a result of the French Revolution of 1848.