[4] Following his death in his Tarbes property,[2] his funeral service was held on 14 October 1867 at the Protestant Oratoire du Louvre in Paris,[1] and he was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

[1] In 1848, following the revolution of February, he published two pamphlets against the use of paper money, respectively entitled Pas d'Assignats and Observations sur la question financière.

Despite his past associations with the Orleanists, he moved gradually closer politically to Louis Napoleon, who made him minister of finance on 31 October 1849.

Fould was reappointed as finance minister the day after the coup d'état of December 1851, which he had helped prepare even though he was not directly involved in its execution.

[1] Within the new Louvre, Fould was awarded a palatial apartment in the newly built complex later known as the Richelieu Wing, which was also to house the offices of both ministries he led.

The suite of ornate rooms was still unfinished when he resigned in late 1860 and was subsequently used by Fould's successor as Minister of State, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski.

Fould resigned again in November 1860 in protest against Napoleon III's policy announcements which entailed spending which he viewed as imprudent, and retired to his adoptive hometown of Tarbes.

[5] In view of the regime's sagging popularity at home and growing challenges abroad, the Emperor grew dissatisfied with Fould's fiscal straitjacket and clashed with his finance minister in late 1866.